Polybotes was one of the Giants, a mythical race born at the same time as the Krines and the Nymphs, when Kronos cut the genitals of the father of the Sky and used the blood from the wound of the God to inseminate Gaia. The Giants are frightening and supernatural creatures who fought against the Gods of Olympus in the

According to tradition, Merops the son of Triopa, had taken over the whole island of Kos and had named the island Meropis. He named the residents Meropes or Meropides. A descendent of the Meropides was named Koos or Kos and it was from him that the island got its name Kos.

According to the most popular myth, Asclepius was the son of Apollo and Koronida, daughter of the King of Thesallia Fleyia. Koronida fell in love with Ishi and so Apollo ordered her death from his sister Artemis. Apollo saved the infant Koronida was carrying,

Son of Hercules and Alcimini, when Virtue and Evil presented themselves and asked him to choose one of their paths, he chose the first. He’s one of the most popular heroes of ancient times and is considered primogenitor of Kos. According to a myth of Kos,