Aloeus

[ uh-loh-ee-uhs, uh-loh-yoos ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. a son of Poseidon, husband of Iphimedia, and foster father of Otus and Ephialtes.

Example Sentences

At all events, whoever their mother was, their father was certainly Poseidon, although they went generally by the name of the Aloadae, the sons of Aloeus, their mother’s husband.

From Literature

Then after Leda to my vision came the wife of Aloeus, Iphimedeia, proud that she once had held the flowing sea and borne him sons, thunderers for a day, the world-renowned Otos and Ephialtes.

From Literature

The comfort of Aloëus, next, I view’d, Iphimedeia; she th’ embrace profess’d Of Neptune to have shared, to whom she bore Two sons; short-lived they were, but godlike both, 370 Otus and Ephialtes far-renown’d.

From Project Gutenberg

Mars, in the first place, endured it, when Otus and valiant Ephialtes, the sons of Aloëus, bound him in a strong chain.

From Project Gutenberg

When Sergius looked into the face of the general again, it wore a disdainful smile—the smile of a Zeus that watches the sons of Aloeus pile mountain on mountain in the vain effort to storm Olympus.

From Project Gutenberg