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ALOTDAE, or ALOADAE

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 720 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALOTDAE, or ALOADAE , i.e. Otus and Ephialtes, in ancient Greek legend, the twin-sons of Poseidon by Iphimedeia, wife of Aloeus. They were celebrated for their extraordinary stature and strength. According to
Homer
  (Od. xi. 305), they made war upon the Olympian gods and endeavoured to
pile
  Pelion upon Ossa in order to
storm
  heaven itself; had they reached the age of manhood, their attempt would have been successful, but Apollo destroyed them before their beards began to grow. In the Iliad (v. 365) Ares is imprisoned by them, but delivered by Hermes. Apollodorus says that they succeeded in piling Pelion upon Ossa. Another story is that they were presumptuous enough to seek Artemis and Hera in
marriage
 , and that Artemis caused themto slay each other unintentionally on the
island
  of Naxos, where they were afterwards worshipped as heroes. In
punishment
  for their offences they were bound back to back with
snakes
  to a pillar in the lower world (Hyginus, Fab. 28). The Aloidae (here connected with aXc, threshing-floor) represent the spirits of the fertile earth and
agriculture
 , conceived of by the Greeks as engaged in combat with the Olympian gods. In contrast to these legends, Pausanias tells us that they were regarded as the first to
worship
  the Muses on Mt. Helicon, while Diodorus represents them as historical personages, princes of Thessaly, who defeated the Thracians in Strongyle, i.e. Naxos, where they made themselves rulers, and subsequently slew one another in a quarrel.


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