Helice

Role: daughter of Selinus; wife of Ion · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 1

While Ion was gathering an army against the Ægialians and their king, Selinus, Selinus offered him Helice, his only child, in marriage and adopted him as his son and heir. Ion accepted; after Selinus’s death, he ruled the Ægialians and built Helice, naming the town after his wife.

In the 4th year of the 101st Olympiad, Helice was destroyed, and the people of Aegium occupied its territory. When Helice was destroyed, Bura, identified as the daughter of Ion and Helice, was also afflicted by a mighty earthquake.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ion accepted Selinus’s offer to marry Helice and become his adopted son and heir.(Book 7 · Chapter 1)
  • With: Ion Selinus
  • “received messengers from Selinus offering him his only child Helice in marriage, and adopting him as his son and heir. And Ion was very well contented with this,”
• Helice was destroyed, and the people of Ægium occupied its territory.(Book 7 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Helice)
  • With: Aegium
  • “And as there were none left remaining at Helice the people of Ægium occupied their territory.”
• A mighty earthquake devastated Bura, destroying its old temple statues and killing those present.(Book 7 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Bura)
  • With: Bura
  • “And when Helice was totally destroyed by the god, Bura also was afflicted by a mighty earthquake, so that none of the old statues were left in the temples.”

Book 7 · Chapter 1

• parent: Selinus “Ion, while gathering together an army against the Ægialians and their king Selinus, received messengers from Selinus offering him his only child Helice in marriage, and adopting him as his son and heir.”
• courtship with Ion “Ion, while gathering together an army against the Ægialians and their king Selinus, received messengers from Selinus offering him his only child Helice in marriage, and adopting him as his son and heir.”
• married with Ion “And Ion was very well contented with this, and after the death of Selinus reigned over the Ægialians, and built Helice which he called after the name of his wife, and called the inhabitants of Ægialus Ionians after him.”

Book 7 · Chapter 25

• younger kin: Bura (Helice is Bura's grandmother.) “The town got its name they say from Bura the daughter of Ion, the Son of Xuthus by Helice.”

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