In Greek mythology, Triopas, Triophas or Triops (Ancient Greek: Τρίωψ, gen.: Τρίοπος) was the name of several characters, whose relations are unclear. * Triopas of Thessaly, a son of Poseidon and Canace, husband of Myrmidon's daughter Hiscilla, 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. Triopas, along with his brothers, Macar, Actis and Candalus, wer