Editing Aloadae (section)

=== Other stories ===
According to [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]], the Aloadae are Thessalian heroes who were sent out by their father Aloeus to fetch back their mother Iphimedeia and their sister Pancratis, who had been carried off by [[Thracians]]. After having overtaken and defeated the Thracians in the island of Strongyle (Naxos), they settled there as rulers over the Thracians. But soon after, they killed each other in a dispute which had arisen between them, and the Naxians worshiped them as heroes.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#51.1 5.51.1–2]</ref>

In all these traditions, the Aloadae were represented as only remarkable for their gigantic physical strength; but there was another story which placed them in a different light. [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] related that they were believed to have been the first of all men who worshiped the [[Muses]] on [[Mount Helicon]], and to have consecrated this mountain to them; but they worshiped only three Muses — [[Melete]], [[Mneme]] and [[Aoede (mythology)|Aoede]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+9.29.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=:chapter=&highlight=Aloeus 9.29.2]</ref> They were bringers of civilization, founding the cities and teaching culture to humanity. They were venerated specifically in [[Naxos (city)|Naxos]] and [[Boeotia]]n [[Ascra]], two cities they founded.<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=6608086C6F6B93EB4774A8CCA5723B0C?doc=Paus.+9.29.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=:chapter=&highlight=Ephialtes 9.29.1]</ref> Besides these two, the foundation of the town of Aloïum in Thessaly was ascribed to them.<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A79.2 Aloion]''</ref>

''Ephialtes'' (lit. "he who jumps upon") is also the [[Greek language|Greek]] word for "[[nightmare]]",<ref>[[Henry Liddell|Liddel, H.G.]] & [[Robert Scott (philologist)|Scott, R.]] ''[[A Greek–English Lexicon]]'', 9th ed. (Oxford, 1940), [[Sub voce#sub verbo|s.v.]] [http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.27:9:135.LSJ {{lang|grc|ἐφιάλτης}}] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605065633/http://artflx.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.27:9:135.LSJ |date=2019-06-05 }}</ref> and Ephialtes was sometimes considered the ''[[daimon]]'' of [[nightmare]]s. In the ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'' of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante's]] ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' Ephialtes is one of six giants placed in the great pit that separates the eighth and ninth circles of [[Hell]], Fraud and [[Cocytus]], respectively. He is chained as punishment for challenging [[Jupiter (mythology)|Jupiter]].