Aloeus Explained

See also: Aeolus.

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

• Aloeus or Haloeus, a Thessalian prince as the son of Poseidon and princess Canace, daughter of King Aeolus and Enarete. He was the brother of Hopleus, Nireus, Epopeus and Triops. His first wife was his niece Iphimedeia,^[1] and later Eriboea, daughter of Eurymachus. In some accounts, Aloeus was the father of Salmoneus who founded Elis, the girls Elate and Platanus, the twin giants, Otus and Ephialtes, collectively known as the Aloadae^{[2] [3]} and lastly, the maiden Pancratis.^[4] These giants made war on the gods and captured the god Ares in a bag. Aloeus's wife Eriboea reported this to the gods, for which Aloeus had her flayed alive.^[5] In Virgil's Aeneid, the sons of Aloeus were found in the underworld and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus.^[6] This scene from Virgil was a precursor to Dante's depiction of Hell. Aloeus was credited to have founded the city of Alus in Aetolia.^[7]
• Aloeus, son of Helios and possibly Antiope^[8] or Perse,^[9] who received from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia (Sicyon). He was the father of Epopeus, his successor.^{[2] [10]}

References

• 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• 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.
• 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.
• Scholia to Lycophron's Alexandra, marginal notes by Isaak and Ioannis Tzetzes and others from the Greek edition of Eduard Scheer (Weidmann 1881). Online version at the Topos Text Project.. Greek text available on Archive.org

Notes and References

1. [Diodorus Siculus]
2. Encyclopedia: Schmitz . Leonhard . Leonhard Schmitz . Aloeus (1) and (2) . . . 1 . 133 . . Boston . 1867 .
3. [Servius (grammarian)|Servius]
4. Diodorus Siculus, 5.50.6; Parthenius, 19 from the 2nd book of the Naxiaca of Andriscus
5. [Scholia]
6. Virgil, Aeneid 6.582
7. Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.482
8. Scholia ad Pindar, Olympian Odes 13.52; Diophantus in scholia on Apollonius, 3.242
9. [John Tzetzes|Tzetzes]
10. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]