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| Aloadae | |
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| Member of the Thessalian Royal Family | |
.jpg) Titans and Giants, including Ephialtes on the left, in Gustave Doré's illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. | |
| Other names | Aloads includes: Otus (Otos) and Ephialtes |
| Abode | Thessaly |
| Genealogy | |
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| Siblings | Pancratis (Pancrato), Elate, Platanus |
In Greek mythology, the Aloadae (/ˌæloʊˈeɪdiː/) or Aloads (Ancient Greek: Ἀλωάδαι Aloadai) were Otus or Otos (Ὦτος means "insatiate") and Ephialtes (Ἐφιάλτης "nightmare"),[1] Thessalian sons of Princess Iphimedia, wife of Aloeus, by Poseidon,[2] whom she induced to make her pregnant by going to the seashore and disporting herself in the surf or scooping seawater into her bosom.[3] From Aloeus, sometimes their real father, they received their patronymic, the Aloadae. They had a sister Pancratis (Pancrato) who was renowned for her great beauty.[4]
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2009). Etymological Dictionary of Greek. Brill Academic Publishers. p. 487. ISBN 978-90-04-17418-4.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.305–8
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.4
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 5.51.1–2; Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 19 with the 2nd book of the Naxiaca of Andriscus as the source