Tags: Mythological Figure.
In Greek mythology Poeas or Poias was one of the Argonauts and a friend of Heracles.As an Argonaut Poeas is identified as the greatest archer of the group. When facing the giant Talos some accounts say Medea drugged the bronze giant and Poeas shot an arrow to poison him in his heel.More famously Poeas had a role in the apotheosis of Heracles. When Heracles realized he was dying from poisonous centaur blood he demanded a funeral pyre built and lit once he stood atop it.