Polybotis 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 battle of the Giants. Poseidon pursued Polybiotis all the way to Kos after being ordered to do so by Zeus.

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, Asclipios 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, he took it to Pylio and entrusted its upbringing to either Centaur Hirona or the healer God Magniton Hirona. Here the child was taught medicine but when Zeus found out he had resurrected the dead and so went against the law

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, when Hercules left Troy he found himself in a terrible storm which Ira had sent. Hercules and some of his comrades managed to reach Kos, where they met a young shepherd named Antagoras and came into conflict with him.