Aloeus (son of Poseidon)

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Aloeus ( Greek Ἀλωεύς ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is the son of Poseidon and the Kanake . Together with Iphimedeia , the daughter of his brother Triopas , he was the father of the Aloaden ( Ἀλοάδαι ) or Aloids ( Ἀλοεῖδαι , Latinized Aloïdae ; after competing variants only namesake) Ephialtes and Otos.

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Libraries of Apollodorus , 1, 53.
Hesiod , Ehoien , 19; 20th
Pausanias , travels in Greece , 9, 22, 6; 9, 29, 1 - 2.

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Aloeus 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 255 ( digitized version ).
Johannes Toepffer : Aloeus 1) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1594.
Hans von Geisau : Aloads, aloids. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 276.