Aloeus
Aloeus can indicate one of two characters in Greek mythology:
- Aloeus, the son of Poseidon and Canace, husband first of Iphimedeia and later of Eriboea, and father of Salmoneus, and the eponym of Otus and Ephialtes, collectively known as the Aloadae. These giants made war on the gods and captured the god Ares in a bag. Aloeus's wife Eeriboea reported this to the gods, for which Aloeus had her flayed alive. In Virgil's Aeneid, the twins of Aloeus are found in the underworld and there Aeneas sees them being punished by Rhadamanthus. This scene from Virgil was a precursor to Dante's depiction of Hell.
- Aloeus, a son of Helios and possibly Antiope, who received from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia. He was the father of Epopeus, his successor.
