Aletes

Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 4

At Corinth, Doridas and Hyanthidas handed the kingdom to Aletes, while the Corinthian people were expelled after defeat by the Dorians. Aletes was the son of Hippotas.

In Book 2, Chapter 4, Aletes first turned away Melas, who had joined the Dorian expedition, following an oracle’s instruction. By Book 5, Chapter 18, he finally admitted Melas and his army, “but not with a good grace.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Doridas and Hyanthidas handed the Corinthian kingdom to Aletes.(Book 2 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Doridas Hyanthidas
  • “Doridas and Hyanthidas handed over the kingdom to Aletes”
• The Corinthian people were expelled after defeat by the Dorians.(Book 2 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Corinth)
  • “but the Corinthian people were expelled, after being beaten in battle by the Dorians.”
• Aletes finally admits Melas and his army after repeatedly rejecting them.(Book 5 · Chapter 18)
  • With: Melas (son of Antasus)
  • “Aletes admitted him but not with a good grace.”

Book 2 · Chapter 4

• parent: Hippotas “under the command of Aletes the son of Hippotas”
• with Doridas (Doridas handed the kingdom to Aletes.) “Doridas and Hyanthidas handed over the kingdom to Aletes, and were permitted to remain at Corinth, but the Corinthian people were expelled, after being beaten in battle by the Dorians.”
• with Hyanthidas (Hyanthidas handed the kingdom to Aletes.) “Doridas and Hyanthidas handed over the kingdom to Aletes, and were permitted to remain at Corinth, but the Corinthian people were expelled, after being beaten in battle by the Dorians.”
• with Melas (son of Antasus) (Aletes took Melas as an associate.) “And when Melas joined the Dorian expedition against Corinth from Gonussa beyond Sicyon, Aletes at first according to the oracle told him to go to other Greeks, but afterwards disregarded the oracle and took him as associate.”

Book 5 · Chapter 18

• with Melas (son of Antasus) (Aletes initially rejects Melas and later admits him into the city.) “And Aletes would not receive Melas and his army into the city, as I have stated before in my account of Corinth, thus disobeying the oracle at Delphi, until at last, as Melas paid every attention to him, and whenever he was rejected returned again with entreaty, Aletes admitted him but not with a good grace.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.