Heleus

Role: youngest son of Perseus · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 20

Life events

• Heleus founded Helus, the town later reduced by the Dorians.(Book 3 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Helus)
  • “It was founded by Heleus the youngest son of Perseus, and the Dorians in after days reduced it by siege.”
• Helus’s inhabitants became slaves, and the Dorians called them Helots.(Book 3 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Helus)
  • “Its inhabitants were the first slaves of the Lacedæmonian commonalty, and were the first called Helots from the place of their birth.”

Book 3 · Chapter 20

• parent: Perseus “It was founded by Heleus the youngest son of Perseus, and the Dorians in after days reduced it by siege.”

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