A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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in the form of annals, which ascended to the earliest 2. A Greek grammarian, a disciple of Agatimes for which they were made up from oral tra- thocles, and apparentlya contemporary of the critic
ditions. Hellanicus made use of these records, but Aristarchus. He wrote on the Homeric poems,
his work was not a mere meagre list, but he incor- and belonged to that class of critics who are termed
porated in it a variety of traditions and historical the Chorizontes. (Eustath. ad Hornm. pp. 1035,
events, for which there was no room in any of his 1173; Schol. Venet. ad II. v. 269; Schol. ad
other works, and he thus produced a sort of chro- Sophoct. Philoct. 201; Schol. Eurip. Vat. in Troad.
nicle. It was one of the earliest attempts to regu- 823, in Orest. 1347; comp. Grauert in the Rhein.
late chronology, and was afterwards made use of by Museum, vol. i. p. 204, &c.; Welcker, deriEpische
Thucydides (ii. 2, iv. 1, 33), Timaeus (Polyb. xii. Cyclus, p. 251.)
12), and others. (Comp. Plut. De Mus. p. 1181; 3. Of Syracuse, a contemporary of Dion. (Plut.
Preller, 1. c. p. 34, &c.) 2. Kapveoviicat, or a chro- Dion. 42.) He is perhaps the same as the one who
nological list of the victors in the musical and is mentioned in Bekker's Anecdota (p. 351) and
poetical contests at the festival of the Carneia. Suidas (s. v. dvaiislXO0ai) as an author who
This work may be regarded as the first attempt to- wrote in the Doric dialect. [L. S.]
wards a history of literature in Greece. A part of HELLAS. [GO'NGYLUS.]
this work, or perhaps an early edition of it, is said HELLE CEAA;7), a daughter of Athamas and
to have been in verse. (Athen. xiv. p. 635.) Nephele, and sister of Phrixus. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ I;
Suidas states that Hellanicus wrote many works Apollon. Rhod. i. 927; Ov. Fast. iv. 909, 1Met. xi.
both in prose and in verse; but of the latter kind 195.) When Phrixus was to be sacrificed, Nenothing is known. phele rescued her two children, who rode away
All the productions of Hellanicus are lost, with through the air upon the ram with the golden fleece,
the exception of a considerable number of fragments. the gift of Hermes, but, between Sigeium and the
Although he belongs, strictly speaking, to the Chersonessls, Helle fell into the sea, which was
logographers (Dionys. Jud. de Thucyd. 5; Diod. i. hence called the sea of Helle (Hellespont; Aeschyl.
37), still he holds a much higher place among the Pers. 70, 875). Her tomb was shown near Pactya,
early Greek historians than any of those who are on the Hellespont. (Herod. vii. 57; comp. ATHAdesignated by the name of logographers. He forms MAS and ALMOPS.) [L. S.]
the transition from that class of writers to the real HELLEN ('EAh7v). 1. A son of Deucalion
historians; for he not only treated of the mythical and Pyrrha, or, according to others, a son of Zeus
ages, but, in several instances, he carried history and Dorippe (Apollod. i. 7. ~ 2; Schol. ad Apoldown to his own times. But, as far as the form of ion. Rhod. i. 118; Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1644), or
history is concerned, he had not emancipated him- of Prometheus and Clymene, and a brother of Deuself from the custom and practice of other logo- calion. (Schol. ad Pind. 01. ix. 68.) By the
graphers, for, like them, he treated history from nymph Orseis, that is, the mountain nymph, he
local points of view, and divided it into such por- became the father of Aeolus, Dorus, and Xuthus,
tions as might be related in the form of genealogies. to whom some add Amphictyon. Hellen, according
Hence he wrote local histories and traditions. This to tradition, was king of Phthia in Thessaly, i. e.
circumstance, and the many differences in his ac- the country between the rivers Peneius and Asocounts from those of Herodotus, renders it highly pus, and this kingdom he left to Aeolus. Hellen
probable that these two writers worked quite inde- is the mythical ancestor of all the Hellenes or
pendently of each other, and that the one was Greeks, in contradistinction from the more anunknown to the other. It cannot be matter of cient Pelasgians. The name of Hellenes was at
surprise that, in regard to early traditions, he was first confined to a tribe inhabiting a part of
deficient in historical criticism, and we may believe Thessaly, but subsequently it was extended to the
Thucydides (i. 97), who says that Hellanicus whole Greek nation. (Hom. Al. ii. 684; Herod. i.
wrote the history of later times briefly, and that 56; Thucyd. i. 3; Paus. iii. 20. ~ 6; Strab. viii.
lie was not accurate in his chronology. In his geo- p. 383.)
graphical views, too, he seems to have been greatly 2. A son of Phthios and Chrysippe, and the
dependent upon his predecessors, and gave, for the mythical founder of the Thessalian town of Hellas.
most part, what he found in them; whence Aga- (Steph. Byz. s. v.'EAhas; Strab. ix. p. 431,
themerus (i. 1), who calls him an dvip 7roevfo-rwp, &c.) [L. S.]
remarks that he dirAdsoaws 7rape&oKe r)v'-Toprap,; HELLEN, a distinguished engraver of gems in
but the censure for falsehood and the like be- the time of Hadrian. (Bracci, vol. ii. tab. 77; de
stowed on him by such writers as Ctesias (ap. Jonge, p. 161; Koihler, Einleitung, p. 23; R.
P/hot. Bibl. Cod. 72), Theopompus (ap. Strab. i. Rochette, Lettre -a M. Schorn, p. 44.) [P. S.]
p. 43), Ephorus (ap. Joseph. c. Apion, i. 3; comp. HELLO'TIA or HELLO'TIS ('EAAhhTa or
Strab. viii. p. 366), and Strabo (x. p. 451, xi. p.'EAAWhris), a surname of Athena at Corinth. Ac508, xiii. p. 602), is evidently one-sided, and cording to the scholiast on Pindar (01. xiii. 56),
should not bias us in forming our judgment of the name was derived from the fertile marsh (Ehos)
his merits or demerits as a writer; for there near Marathon, where Athena had a sanctuary; or
can be no doubt that he was a learned and from Hellotia, one of the daughters of Timander,
-diligent compiler, and that so far as his sources who fled into the temple of Athena when Corinth
went, he was a trustworthy one. His fragments was burnt down by the Dorians, and was destroyed
are collected in Sturz, Hellanici Lesbii Frag- in the temple with her sister Eurytione. Soon after,
menta, Lips. 1796, 8vo., 2d edition 1826; in the a plague -broke out at Corinth, and the oracle deAIiuseumn Criticum,vol.ii. p. 90-107, Camb. 1826; dared that it should not cease until the souls of
and in C. and Th. Muller, Fragmenta Histor. the maidens were propitiated, and a sanctuary
Graec. p. 45-96. (Dahlmann, Herodot. p. 122, should be erected to Athena Hellotis. Respecting
Miiller, Hist. of Greek Lit. p. 264, and especially the festival of the Hellotia, see Dict. of Ant. s. v.
the work of Preller above referred to.) Hellotis was also a surname of Europe in Crete,