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ALEUAS.
Meyer, Gesch. der bildend. Kiinste, ii. p. 99, &c.
)n the road from Sparta to Therapne there was
ikewise a statue of Athena Alea. (Paus. iii. 19.
3 7.) [L. S.]
ALEBION. [ALBION.]
ALECTO. [FURIAE.]
ALECTOR ('AAEcTop). 1. The father of
Leitus, the Argonaut. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 16.) Honer (II. xvii. 602) calls him Alectryon.
2. A son of Anaxagoras and father of Iphis,
ring of Argos. He was consulted by Polyneices
is to the manner in which Amphiaraus might be:ompelled to take part in the expedition against
rhebes. (Apollod. iii. 6. ~ 2; Paus. ii. 18. ~ 4.)
r wo others of the same name are mentioned in
Jomner. (Od. iv. 10; Eustath. ad Homn. pp. 303
md 1598.) [L. S.]
ALE'MON, ALEMO'NIDES. [MYSCELUS.]
ALE'TES ('AhATs), a son of Hippotes and a
lescendant of Heracles in the fifth degree. He is
aid to have taken possession of Corinth, and to
lave expelled the Sisyphids, thirty years after the
irst invasion of Pelopennesus by the Heraclids.
iis family, sometimes called the Aletidae, mainained themselves at Corinth down to the time of
lacchis. (Paus. ii. 4. ~ 3, v. 18. ~ 2; Strab. viii.,. 389; Callim. Fragm. 103; Pind. 01. xiii. 17.)
/clleius Paterculus (i. 3) calls him a descendant
f Heracles in the sixth degree. -He received an
racle, promising him the sovereignty of Athens, if.ring the war, which was then going on, its king
hould remain uninjured. This oracle became
nown at Athens, and Codrus sacrificed himself
)r his country. (Conon, Narrat. 26.) [CODRUs.]
Other persons of this name are mentioned in
tpollod. iii. 10. ~ 6; Hygin. Fab. 122, and in
'irg. Aen. i. 121, ix. 462. [L. S.]
ALEUAS and ALEU'ADAE ('AAear and
kAevdaSa). Aleuas is the ancestorial hero of the
'hessalian, or, more particularly, of the Larissaean
imily of the Aleuadae. (Pind. Pyth. x. 8, with
he Schol.) The Aleuadae were the noblest and
lost powerful among all the families of Thessaly,
rhence Herodotus (vii. 6) calls its members /3ano-.es. (Comp. Diod. xv. 61, xvi. 14.) The first
dleuas, who bore the surname of vIppos, that is,
ie red-haired, is called king (here synonymous
rith Tagus, see Diet. of Ant. p. 932) of Thessaly,
nd a descendant of Heracles through Thessalus,
ne of the many sons of Heracles. (Suidas, s. v.,AeudSai; Ulpian, ad Dem. Olynth. i.; Schol.
d Apollon. Rhod. iii. 1090; Vellei. i. 3.) Plutarch
le Am. Frat. in fin.) states, that he was hated by
is father on account of his haughty and savage
laracter; but his uncle nevertheless contrived to
at him elected king and sanctioned by the god of
>eiphi. His reign was more glorious than that of
ny of his ancestors, and the nation rose in power
nd importance. This Aleuas, who belongs to the
lythical period of Greek history, is in all probaility the same as the one who, according to Hege-. ion (ap. Ael. Anim. viii. 11), was beloved by a
ragon. According to Aristotle (ap. Hlaupocrat.
v. TerpapXLa) the division of Thessaly into four
irts, of which traces remained down to the latest
mes, took place in the reign of the first Aleuas.
uttmann places this hero in the period between,e so-called return of the Heraclids and the age of
eisistratus. But even earlier than the time of
eisistratus the fiamily of the Aleuadae appears to
ive become divided into two branches, the Aleu

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adae and the Scopadae, called after Scopas, probably a son of Aleuas. (Ov. Ibis, 512.) The Scopadae inhabited Crannon and perhaps Pharsalus
also, while the main branch, the Aleuadae, remained at Larissa. The influence of the families, however, was not confined to these towns, but extended
more or less over the greater part of Thessaly.
They formed in reality a powerful aristocratic
party (p3aOrts) in opposition to the great body of
the Thessalians. (Herod. vii. 172.)
The earliest historical person, who probably belongs to the Aleuadae, is Eurylochus, who terminated the war of Cirrha about B.C. 590. (Strab. ix.
p. 418.) [EURYLOCHUs.] In the time of the poet
Simonides we find a second Aleuas, who wa a
friend of the poet. Hie is called a son of Echecratides and Syris (Schol. ad Theocrit. xvi. 34); but
besides the suggestion of Ovid (Ibis, 225), that he
had a tragic end, nothing is known about him.
At the time when Xerxes invaded Greece, three
sons of this Aleuas, Thorax, Eurypylus, and Thrasydaeus, came to him as ambassadors, to request
him to go on with the war, and to promise him
their assistance. (Herod. vii. 6.) [THocAx.]
When, after the Persian war, Leotychides was
sent to Thessaly to chastise those who had acted
as traitors to their country, he allowed himself to
be,bribed by the Aleuadae, although he might
have subdued all Thessaly. (Herod. vi. 72; Paus.
iii. 7. ~ 8.) This fact shews that the power of the
Aleuadae was then still as great as before. About
the year B. c. 460, we find an Aleuad Orestes, son
of Echecratides, who came to Athens as a fugitive,
and persuaded the Athenians to exert themselves
for his restoration. (Thuc. i. 111.) Hle had
been expelled either by the Thessalians or more
probably by a faction of his own family, who
wished to exclude him from the dignity of paoTA\'s
(i. e. probably Tagus), for such feuds among the
Aleuadae themselves are frequently mentioned.
(Xen. Anab. i. 1. ~ 10.)
After the end of the Peloponnesian war, another
Thessalian family, the dynasts of Pherae, gradually
rose to power and influence, and gave a great shock
to the power of the Aleuadae. As early as B.C.
375, Jason of Pherae, after various struggles, succeeded in raising himself to the dignity of Tagus.
(Xen. Hellen. ii. 3. ~ 4; Diod. xiv. 82, xv. 60.)
When the dynasts of Pherae became tyrannical,
some of the Larissaean Aleuadae conspired to put
an end to their rule, and for this purpose they invited
Alexander, king of Macedonia, the son of Amyntas.
(Diod. xv. 61.) Alexander took Larissa and
Crannon, but kept them to himself. Afterwards,
Pelopidas restored the original state of things in
Thessaly; but the dynasts of Pherae soon recovered their power, and the Aleuadae again solicited
the assistance of Macedonia against them. Philip
willingly complied with the request, broke the
power of the tyrants of Pherae, restored the towns
to an appearance of freedom, and made the Aleuadae his faithful friends and allies. (Diod. xvi. 14.)
In what manner Philip used them for his purposes,
and how little he spared them when it was his
interest to do so, is sufficiently attested. (Dem.
de Cor. p. 241; Polyaen. iv. 2. ~ 11; Ulpian, 1.c.)
Among the tetrarchs whom he entrusted with the
administration of Thessaly, there is one Thrasydaeus (Theopomp. ap. A then. vi. p. 249), who undoubtedly belonged to the Aleuadae, just as the
Thessalian Medius, who is mentioned as one of