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282 THE ALOIDAE ORIGINALLY THRACIANS. [CHAP.
Many ancient legends would make us consider the
Aloidae as originally Thracians. They were said to
have assisted in founding Ascra at the foot of Mount
Helicon36, which, as well as Olympus, is known to have
been occupied by a Thracian colony37. We also find
the Thracians at Anthedon in Boeotia38; where people
used to shew, even in the time of Pausanias, the tombs
of these giants near a temple of Dionysos39. The legend
of the death of Otos and Ephialtes in Naxos, reminds
us of its early occupation by a colony of Thracians40,
to whom it also was indebted for the Dionysian wor-
ship41. The island had been called Strongyle before
their arrival: they gave it the name Dia, which it
retained until, on the spread of Carian pirates through
the Egean, it fell into the hands of a Carian chief,
Naxos, by whom it was called after his own name42.
The worship of Dionysos, which had thus been esta-
blished in Naxos at so early a period, continued to
flourish under the Carian rule, that is during the time
when intimate relations became established between the
islanders of the Egean and the Cretans: and, in all
Although Nonnus mentions Apollo as their destroyer, yet he describes
their offence against the goddess: Dionys. xliv. 304.
Sde Trat's eWa^e \eierpa, tcc fxi} \dyev 'Qtos dyijiHop'
ov dpaaiis 'Qplcov ireXe vupcpios 'Ioxeaipijs.
and again xlviii. 403.
El oe iraKiv dparrui TQ-ros, rj auY?)'615 'E7r(.aA/Ti)s
<yvX:uy'i7]V peveaive Tewv aKiyr\Tov ipojTWV.
36 Hegesinous, in Pausanias, ix. p. 765.
37 Strabo, ix. p. 410. x. p. 471. Mueller's Orchomenos, p. 381.
38 Lycophron, Alexand. 754.
'AtrToi crvvoiKo? QpyKLai 'Avdrjoovos.
Stephanus Byzant. v. 'AvBt}8<Av, and Ettstathitjs, on Homer II. ii.
p. 271. The important consequences of the presence of these Thracians in
Greece are mentioned by Mr Thihlwall, History of Greece, Vol. 1. Ch. 11.
pp. 46-7.
Pausanias, ix. p. 754. Tovtwv <5i; etrtiv h> 'Avdtidovi fivt'ifxai-a.
40 See Diodorus Siculus, v. 51. and Mueller's Orchomenos, p. 387.
41 Diodorus Siculus, v. 52. 42 Ibid. v. 51.
Many ancient legends would make us consider the
Aloidae as originally Thracians. They were said to
have assisted in founding Ascra at the foot of Mount
Helicon36, which, as well as Olympus, is known to have
been occupied by a Thracian colony37. We also find
the Thracians at Anthedon in Boeotia38; where people
used to shew, even in the time of Pausanias, the tombs
of these giants near a temple of Dionysos39. The legend
of the death of Otos and Ephialtes in Naxos, reminds
us of its early occupation by a colony of Thracians40,
to whom it also was indebted for the Dionysian wor-
ship41. The island had been called Strongyle before
their arrival: they gave it the name Dia, which it
retained until, on the spread of Carian pirates through
the Egean, it fell into the hands of a Carian chief,
Naxos, by whom it was called after his own name42.
The worship of Dionysos, which had thus been esta-
blished in Naxos at so early a period, continued to
flourish under the Carian rule, that is during the time
when intimate relations became established between the
islanders of the Egean and the Cretans: and, in all
Although Nonnus mentions Apollo as their destroyer, yet he describes
their offence against the goddess: Dionys. xliv. 304.
Sde Trat's eWa^e \eierpa, tcc fxi} \dyev 'Qtos dyijiHop'
ov dpaaiis 'Qplcov ireXe vupcpios 'Ioxeaipijs.
and again xlviii. 403.
El oe iraKiv dparrui TQ-ros, rj auY?)'615 'E7r(.aA/Ti)s
<yvX:uy'i7]V peveaive Tewv aKiyr\Tov ipojTWV.
36 Hegesinous, in Pausanias, ix. p. 765.
37 Strabo, ix. p. 410. x. p. 471. Mueller's Orchomenos, p. 381.
38 Lycophron, Alexand. 754.
'AtrToi crvvoiKo? QpyKLai 'Avdrjoovos.
Stephanus Byzant. v. 'AvBt}8<Av, and Ettstathitjs, on Homer II. ii.
p. 271. The important consequences of the presence of these Thracians in
Greece are mentioned by Mr Thihlwall, History of Greece, Vol. 1. Ch. 11.
pp. 46-7.
Pausanias, ix. p. 754. Tovtwv <5i; etrtiv h> 'Avdtidovi fivt'ifxai-a.
40 See Diodorus Siculus, v. 51. and Mueller's Orchomenos, p. 387.
41 Diodorus Siculus, v. 52. 42 Ibid. v. 51.