Triopas

• Triopas, king of Argos and son of Phorbas.
• Triopas of Thessaly, a son of Poseidon and Canace, and thus the brother of Aloeus, Epopeus, Hopleus and Nireus. He was the husband of Myrmidon's daughter Hiscilla by whom he became the father of Iphimedeia, Phorbas and Erysichthon. He destroyed a temple of Demeter in order to obtain materials for roofing his own house, and was punished by insatiable hunger as well as being plagued by a snake which inflicted illness on him. Eventually Demeter placed him and the snake among the stars as the constellation Ophiuchus to remind others of his crime and punishment. A city in Caria was named Triopion after him.
• Triopas, one of the Heliadae, sons of Helios and Rhodos and grandson of Poseidon. Triopas, along with his brothers, Macar, Actis and Candalus, were jealous of a fifth brother, Tenages's, skill at science, and killed him. When their crime was discovered, Triopas escaped to Caria and seized a promontory which received his name. Later he founded the city of Knidos. There was a statue of him and his horse at Delphi, an offering by the people of Knidos.