Bias(Βίας), son of Amythaon, and
brother of the seer Melampus. He married Pero, daughter of Neleus, whom her father had refused
to give to any one unless he brought him the oxen of Iphiclus. These Melampus obtained by his
courage and skill, and so won the princess for his brother. (Schol. ad
Theocrit. Idyll. 3.43; Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1.118; Paus. 4.36; comp. Hom. Odyss. 11.286, &c.,
15.231.) Through his brother also Bias is said to have gained a third of the kingdom of Argos,
Melampus having insisted upon it in his behalf, as part of the condition on which alone he
would cure the daughters of Proetus and the other Argive women of their madness. According to
Pausanias, the Biantidae continued to rule in Argos for four generations. Apollonius Rhodius
mentions three sons of Bias among the Argonauts, --Talaus, Areius, and Leodocus. (Hdt. 9.34; Pind. N. 9.30; Schol. ad loc.;
Diod. 4.68; Paus. 2.6, 18; Apollon. 1.118.) According to the
received reading in Diod. 4.68, "Bias" was also the name of a son
of Melampus by Iphianeira, daughter of Megapenthes; but it has been proposed to read " Abas,"
in accordance with Paus. 1.43; Apollon.
1.142; Apollod. 1.9.
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