Aloeus

Aloeus (/əˈloʊjuːs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλωεύς probably derived from ἀλοάω aloaō "to thresh, to tread" as well as "to crush, to smash") can indicate one of two characters in Greek mythology:

• Aloeus, the son of Poseidon and Canace, husband first of Iphimedeia and later of Eriboea (Ἐρίβοια), and father of Salmoneus (who founded Elis), and the eponym of Otus and Ephialtes, collectively known as the Aloadae.[1] These giants made war on the gods and captured the god Ares in a bag. Aloeus's wife Eeriboea reported this to the gods, for which Aloeus had her flayed alive.[2][3][4] In Virgil's Aeneid, the twins of Aloeus are found in the underworld and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus.[5] This scene from Virgil was a precursor to Dante's depiction of Hell.
• Aloeus, a son of Helios and possibly Antiope,[6][7] who received from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia (Sicyon). He was the father of Epopeus, his successor.[1][8]

Notes

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Aloeus (1) and (2)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 133.
2. Scholiast on Homer's Iliad 12.543
3. Homer, Odyssey 11.305
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.7.3
5. Virgil, Aeneid 6
6. Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 13.52
7. Diophantus in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.242
8. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.1.6 & 2.3.8

References

• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alo'eus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alo'eus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.