Aloeus
Role: mythical ancestor · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 1
In Book 2, Aloeus is named as the son of the Sun God and the father of Epopeus. By Book 9, he is identified as the father of Otus and Ephialtes with Iphimedea; both sons were slain by Apollo. In Book 9, Œoclus is said to have built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus.
Relationship record
Book 2 · Chapter 1
Book 9 · Chapter 22
- child: Otus “Here too are the tombs of Otus and Ephialtes the sons of Iphimedea and Aloeus, who were slain by Apollo as both Homer and Pindar have represented.”
- child: Ephialtes “Here too are the tombs of Otus and Ephialtes the sons of Iphimedea and Aloeus, who were slain by Apollo as both Homer and Pindar have represented.”
Book 9 · Chapter 29
- child: Ephialtes (Ephialtes and Otus are identified as the sons of Aloeus in the surrounding passage.) “They say that Ephialtes and Otus first sacrificed to the Muses on Helicon, and called the mountain sacred to the Muses, and built Ascra, of which Hegesinous speaks as follows in his poem about Attica. “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus,”
- child: Otus (Ephialtes and Otus are identified as the sons of Aloeus in the surrounding passage.) “They say that Ephialtes and Otus first sacrificed to the Muses on Helicon, and called the mountain sacred to the Muses, and built Ascra, of which Hegesinous speaks as follows in his poem about Attica. “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus,”
- with Œoclus (Œoclus built Ascra together with the sons of Aloeus.) “By Ascra lay the earth-shaking Poseidon, and she as time rolled on bare him a son Œoclus, who first built Ascra with the sons of Aloeus, Ascra at the foot of many-fountained Helicon.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.