Abas may refer to:

• Abas (sophist), a Greek sophist and rhetorician
• The ancient writer of a work called Troiea from which Servius (ad Aen. ix. 264) has preserved a fragment.
• An old Persian measurement for pearls, about 0,1458 gram
• Several figures in Greek mythology share the name Abas, including:
  • Abas, son of Poseidon and Arethusa. A Thracian by birth, Abas founded a tribe known as the Abantians or Abantes. Abas and his Abantian followers migrated to the island of Euboea, where he subsequently reigned as king. He was father of Chalcodon, and grandfather of Elephenor; the latter who led a contingent of Abantian warriors from Euboea to the Trojan War.
  • Abas, son of Lynceus, a king of Argos
  • An Argive seer, son of Melampus and Iphianeira. He was the father of Coeranus, Idmon, and Lysimache.
  • A companion of Perseus
  • One of Diomedes companions, whom Aphrodite turned into a swan
  • A son of Metaneira who was changed by Demeter into a lizard, because he mocked the goddess when she had come on her wanderings into the house of her mother, and drank eagerly to quench her thirst. Other traditions relate the same story of a boy, Ascalabus, and call his mother Misme.
• Abas, two friends of Aeneas in Roman mythology
• abas ERP, an enterprice resource planning solution
• ABAS Software, a German software development company
• Abas I of Armenia
• Adaptive Behavior Assessment System (ABAS), a psychological assessment to assess the level of adaptive skills in children and adults

People with the surname Abas

• Salleh Abas, former Malaysian Lord President of the Federal Court
• Stephen Abas, American wrestler and Olympic silver medalist

See also

• Abbas

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).

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