360, having borne one Helenus and Cassandra were left by their parents
child, a boy, which died immediately after its birth.
child, a boy, which died immediately after its birth.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
p.
363,
p. 955. ) He certainly lived before Apollonius where he is called Encos. )
(L. S. )
Citiensis, by whom he is quoted, and one of his HELENA ('ENévn), a daughter of Zeus and
opinions controverted. (Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. Ledam
, and the sister of Polydeuces and Castor ;
ei Gal. vol. i. pp. 34, 35, 41. ) He was one of the some traditions called her a daughter of Zeus by
followers of Herophilus, and wrote a work entitled Nemesis. (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 6; Hygin. Fab. 77;
TIepl Altiv, De Causis, of which nothing remains. Schol. ad Callin. Hymn. in Dian. 232. ) She was
This work has been attributed to Herophilus by of surpassing beauty, and is said to have in her
Dr. Marx (De Heroph. Vita, &c. pp. 11, 58), who youth been carried off by Theseus, in conjunction
considers the word 'Huntwp in Apollonius to be, with Peirithous to Attica. When therefore Theseus
not a proper name, but a sort of honorary title ap was absent in Hades, Polydences and Castor
plied to Herophilus ; but that both these suppo- (the Dioscuri) undertook an expedition to Attica.
sitions are wrong has been pointed out by a writer Athens was taken, Helena delivered, and Aethram,
in the Brit. und For. Med. Rev. vol. xv. pp. 109, the mother of Theseus, was taken prisoner, and
110.
[W. A. G. ] carried by the Dioscuri, as a slave of Helena to
HE'GIAS. (HEGESIAS. ]
Sparta. (Hygin. Fab. 79; comp. Paus. i 17. $ 6,
HEIMA'RMENE (Eiuapuévn), the personifica- 41. § 5, ii. 22. $ 7. ) After her return to Spartan
tion of fate. (Moirae. )
princely suitors appeared from all parts of Greece
HEIUS (“Helos), the name of an ancient and (Hygin. Fab. 81; Apollod. iii. 10. § 8), but, after
noble family at Messana in Sicily. They were a consultation with Odysseus, who was likewise
probably hereditary clients of the Claudii. (Cic. one of them, Tyndareus, the husband of Led,
in Verr. iv. 3 ; comp. c. 17. )
gave her in marriage to Menelaus, who became by
1. Cn. Herus, one of the judices in the judicium her the father of Hermione, and, according to
Albianum, B. c. 74. (Cic. pro Cluent. 38. ) (Clu- others, of Nicostratus also. She was subsequently
ENTIUS. ]
seduced and carried off by Paris to Troy. [PARIS;
2. Helus, a citizen of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and MENELAUS. ) Ptolemaeus Hephaestion (4) men-
a ward of C. Claudius Pulcher, curule aedile in tions six other mythical personages of the same
B. C. 99. He was one of the many Sicilians whom name: 1. a daughter of Paris and Helena ; 2. a
Vertes, while praetor, robbed of money and works daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra ; 3. a
of art. (Cic. in Verr. iv. 17. )
daughter of Epidamnius; 4. a daughter of Faustulus,
3. C. Heius, the principal citizen of Messana in the shepherd who brought up Romulus and Remus;
Sicily, and head of the deputation which Verres 5. a daughter of Tityrus ; and 6. a daughter of
persuaded or compelled that city to send to Rome Micythus, the beloved of Stesichorus. (L. S. )
in B. c. 70, to give evidence in his favour, when HE'LENA, FLAVIA JU'LIA. 1. The
impeached by Cicero. But Heius, although he mother of Constantine the Great, was unquestion-
discharged his public commission, was in his own ably of low origin, perhaps the daughter of an inn-
person an important witness for the prosecution. keeper, but the report chronicled by Zosimus, and
He had, indeed, been one of the principal sufferers not rejected by Orosius, that she was not joined in
from the praetor's rapacity. Before the administra- lawful wedlock to Chlorus seems to be no less
tion of Verres Heius was the possessor, by long destitute of foundation than the monkish legend
inheritance, of some of the rarest and most perfect which represents her father as a British or Cale-
specimens of Grecian art. Among them were the donian king. When her husband was elevated to
famous Eros in marble by Praxiteles ; an equally the dignity of Caesar by Diocletian, in A. D. 292,
celebrated Heracles in bronze, by Myron ; Cane he was compelled to repudiate his wife, to make
phoroe, by Polycletus ; and Attalic tapestry, as way for Theodora, the step-child of Maximianus
rare and much more costly than the Gobelin tapestry Herculius: but the necessity of such a divorce is
of modern times. All these ancestral treasures of in itself a sufficient proof that the existing marriage
the Heian family, some of which being the furni- was regarded as regular and legal. Subsequently,
ture of the family-chapel, were sacred as well as when her son succeeded to the purple, Helena was
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371
HELENUS.
-
in some degree compensated for her suffering, for The dissertation of Eckhel, vol. viii. p.
she was treated during the remainder of her career 143, gives within a short compass the substanco
with the most marked distinction, received the of the different theories which have been
title of Augusta, and after her death, at an ad- broached from time to time by writers upon these
vanced age, about A. D. 328, her memory was kept topics.
[W. R. )
alive by the names of Helenopolis and Helenopon- HE'LENA ('ENévn), the daughter of Timon of
tus, bestowed respectively upon a city of Syria, a Egypt, painted the battle of Issus about the time
city of Bithynia, and a district bordering on the of its occurrence (B. C. 333). In the reign of Ves-
Euxine. The virtues of this holy lady, her attach- pasian this picture was placed in the Temple of
ment to the Christian faith, which she appears to Peace at Rome. (Ptol. Hephaest. ap. Phot. cod.
have embraced at the instance of Constantine, her 190, p. 149, b. 30, ed. Bekker. ) It is supposed
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where she was believed by some scholars that the well-known mosaic found
to have discovered the sepulchre of our Lord, to- at Pompeii is a copy of this picture, while others
gether with the wood of ihe true cross, and her believe it to represent the battle at the Granicus,
zealous patronage of the faithful, have afforded a others that at Arbela. All that can be safely said
copious theme to Eusebius, Sozomenus, Theodore is, that the mosaic represents one of Alexander's
tus, and ecclesiastical historians, and, at a later battles, and that in all probability the person in the
period, procured for her the glory of canonisation. chariot is Dareius. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst,
(Gruter, C. I. cclxxxiv. 1 ; Eutrop. x. 2 ; Aurel. 163. n. 1, 6. )
[P. S. ]
Vict. Epit. 39, 40 ; Zosim. ii. 8; Oros. vii. 25; HE'LENUS ( Elevos), a son of Priam and
Euseb. Vit. Const. iii. 46, 47 ; Sozomen. ii. 1 ; Hecabe, was a skilful observer of auguries, and
Theodoret. i. 18. On the legitimacy of St. He knew the counsel of the gods (Hom. 1. vi. 76,
lena's marriage, see Tillemont, Histoire des Empe- vii. 44; Apollod. iii. 12. $ 5); but he was at the
reurs, vol. iv. , Notes sur l'Empereur Constantin, same time a warrior, and with Deiphobus he led
not. i. , and on the period of her death, not. lvii. ) the third host of the Trojans against the camp of
2. Daughter of Constantine the Great and the Greeks. (n. xii. 94. ) He fought against
Fausta, was given in marriage by her brother Menelaus, but was wounded by him(xiii. 580,
Constantius to her cousin Julian the Apostate, &c. ). This is in outline all that the Homeric poems
when the latter was nominated Caesar, towards tell us of Helenus, but in other traditions we find
the end of A. D. 355. She survived the union for the following additions. Once, when yet children,
five years only, until A. D.
360, having borne one Helenus and Cassandra were left by their parents
child, a boy, which died immediately after its birth. in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo ; and, as
Her sterility, as well as the fate of this solitary they fell asleep, snakes came and cleaned their
infant, were ascribed, as we learn from Ammianus ears, whereby they acquired the gift of prophecy.
Marcellinus, to the guilty arts of her sister-in-law, (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 663. ) Another tradition
the empress Eusebia. (Amm. Marc. xv. 8. $ 18, was, that his original name was Scamandrius, and
xvi. 10. § 18, xxi. 1. § 5. )
that he received the name of Helenus from a
The medals belonging to this epoch which bear Thracian soothsayer, who also instructed him in
the name of Helena are peculiarly embarrassing, the prophetic art. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 626. )
since, in most cases, it is very difficult, if not im- Respecting his deserting his countrymen and join-
possible, to decide which belong to Helena the ing the Greeks, there are different accounts ; ac-
wife of Chlorus, which to Helena the wife of cording to some it was the act of his free will, and,
Julian, and which to Helena the wife of Crispus. according to others, he was ensnared by Odysseus,
The designation appears upon the obverses under who wanted to have his prophecy respecting the
four forms: 1. Fl. Jul. HELENAE. Aug. ; 2. fall of Troy. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 905; Soph. Phi-
Flavia or FL. HELENA. AUGUSTA ; 3. He- loct. 605, 1338 ; Ov. Met. xiii. 99, 723. ) Others
LENA. N. F. (Nobilis Femina); 4. HELENA FL. again relate that Chryses announced to the Greeks
Max. (Helena Flavia Maxima).
that Helenus was staying with him in the temple
of Apollo. When therefore Diomedes and Odysseus
were sent to fetch him, Helenus surrendered to them,
requesting them to assign to him a place where he
might live away from his own friends and relatives.
He then informed them that he had not left his
country and friends from fear of death, but on ac-
count of the sacrilege which Paris had committed,
in murdering Achilles in the temple, and told them
of the time and the circumstances under which
Troy should fall. (Dict. Cret. iv. 18. ) Others,
COIN OF HELENA, WIFE OF CONSTANTIUS lastly, relate that, on the death of Paris, Helenus
CHLORUS.
and Deiphobus disputed about the possession of
Helena, and that Helenus being conquered, fled to
Mount Ida, where he was taken prisoner by the
Greeks. (Conon, Narr. 34; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 166. )
In the Philoctetes of Sophocles, Helenus foretelis
to Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, that Troy shall fall
only through Pyrrhus and Philoctetes; and after
the destruction of the city, he reveals to Pyrrhus the
sufferings which awaited the Greeks who returned
home by sea, and prevails upon him to return by land,
COIN OF HELENA, WIFE OF CRISPUS OR and settle in Epeirus. (Serv. ad Aen. ii. 166. )
JULIANUS.
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HELIADAE.
HELIO.
of the country, and married Andromache, by whom | Heliades. (Ov. Met. ii. 340, &c. ; Apollon. Rhod.
he became the father of Cestrinus. The remaining iv. 604. )
(L. S. )
part of Epeirus was given to Molossus, the son of HELIANAX ('HAával), brother of Stesi-
Pyrrhus. " (Paus. i. 11. § 1, &c. , ii. 23. § 6; Virg. chorus, who, according to Suidas (s. r. ), was a
Aen. iii. 295, 333. ) When Aeneas in his wander lawgiver, probably in one of the states of Si-
ings arrived in Epeirus, he was hospitably received cily.
(C. P. M. ]
by Helenus, who also foretold him the future HELIAS. (Elias. )
events of his life. (Virg. Aen. iii. 245, 374 ; Ov. HELICAON ('Elinaw), a son of Antenor,
Met. xv. 438. ) According to an Argive tradition, and husband of Laodice, a daughter of Priam.
Helenus was buried at Argos. (Paus. ii. 23. & 5. ) (Hom. 11. iji. 124; Paus. I. 26. $ 2. ) [LS]
A different person of the same name occurs in the HE’LICE ("Halan). ). A daughter of Lycaon,
Iliad (v. 707).
(L. S. ] was beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy,
HELENUS (ⓇEAevos), son of Pyrrhus, king of metamorphosed her into a she-bear, whereupon
Epeirus, by Lanassi, daughter of Agathocles. He Zeus placed her among the stars, under the name
was very young when he accompanied his father on of the Great Northern Bear. (Serv, ad Virg. Georg.
his expedition to Italy, B. c. 280 ; but Pyrrhus is i. 138, 246. ) When Demeter invoked her, asking
said to have conceived the project, when elated for information about her lost daughter, Helice
with his first successes in Sicily, of establishing referred her to Helios. (Ov. Fast. iv. 580. ). Hy
Helenus there as king of the island, to which as ginus (P’oct. A str. ii. 2, 13) calls her a daughter of
grandson of Agathocles he appeared to have a sort Olenus, and says that she brought up Zeus.
of hereditary claim. (Just. xviii, 1, xxiii. 3. ) But 2. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
the tide of fortune soon turned ; and when Pyrrhus The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to
saw himself compelled to abandon both Sicily and have derived its name from her. (Paus vii. 1. $ 2;
Italy, he left Helenus at Tarentum, together with Steph. Byz. s. r. )
Milo, to command the garrison of that city, the 3. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hye
only place in Italy of which he still retained pos- ginus. (Fab. 170. )
(L. S. ]
session. It was not long before he recalled them HELICON ('EÁikár), a native of Cyzicus, a
both from thence, in consequence of the unex- friend and disciple of Plato. He was for some
pected views that had opened to his ambition in time a resident at the court of Dionysius the
Macedonia and Greece. Helenus accompanied his Younger, and was presented by him with a talent
father on his expedition into the Peloponnese of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of
(B. c. 272), and after the fatal night attack on the sun. (Plut. Dion. p. 966. ) According to Sui-
Argos, in which Pyrrhus himself perished, he fell | das (s. v. ), he wrote a work entitled 'ATOTENé Ouara
into the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, who how- and a treatise lepi Aloonueiav. [C. P. M. )
ever behaved towards him in the most magnani- HE’LICON ('EALKWY), the son of Acesas, of
mous manner, treated him with the utmost dis- Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in
tinction, and sent him back in safety to Epeirus, weaving variegated garments and hangings. He
bearing with him the remains of his father. (Just. made the war cloak (ÉTITOPTQua) which the Rho-
xxv. 3, 5; Plut. Pyrrh. 33, 34. ) After this we dians presented to Alexander the Great (Plut.
hear no more of him.
Aler. 32. ) Plutarch's addition to his name of the
2. A freedman of Octavian, who enjoyed a high words toỦ Talaloù, makes it probable that he lived
place in his favour. He was taken prisoner in about the time of Phidias, under whose direction
Sardinia by Maenas, the lieutenant of Sext. we know that artists of his class (TOLKATA)
Pompey (B. C. 40), but the latter set him at liberty wrought. (Plut. Peric. 12.
p. 955. ) He certainly lived before Apollonius where he is called Encos. )
(L. S. )
Citiensis, by whom he is quoted, and one of his HELENA ('ENévn), a daughter of Zeus and
opinions controverted. (Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. Ledam
, and the sister of Polydeuces and Castor ;
ei Gal. vol. i. pp. 34, 35, 41. ) He was one of the some traditions called her a daughter of Zeus by
followers of Herophilus, and wrote a work entitled Nemesis. (Apollod. iii. 10. $ 6; Hygin. Fab. 77;
TIepl Altiv, De Causis, of which nothing remains. Schol. ad Callin. Hymn. in Dian. 232. ) She was
This work has been attributed to Herophilus by of surpassing beauty, and is said to have in her
Dr. Marx (De Heroph. Vita, &c. pp. 11, 58), who youth been carried off by Theseus, in conjunction
considers the word 'Huntwp in Apollonius to be, with Peirithous to Attica. When therefore Theseus
not a proper name, but a sort of honorary title ap was absent in Hades, Polydences and Castor
plied to Herophilus ; but that both these suppo- (the Dioscuri) undertook an expedition to Attica.
sitions are wrong has been pointed out by a writer Athens was taken, Helena delivered, and Aethram,
in the Brit. und For. Med. Rev. vol. xv. pp. 109, the mother of Theseus, was taken prisoner, and
110.
[W. A. G. ] carried by the Dioscuri, as a slave of Helena to
HE'GIAS. (HEGESIAS. ]
Sparta. (Hygin. Fab. 79; comp. Paus. i 17. $ 6,
HEIMA'RMENE (Eiuapuévn), the personifica- 41. § 5, ii. 22. $ 7. ) After her return to Spartan
tion of fate. (Moirae. )
princely suitors appeared from all parts of Greece
HEIUS (“Helos), the name of an ancient and (Hygin. Fab. 81; Apollod. iii. 10. § 8), but, after
noble family at Messana in Sicily. They were a consultation with Odysseus, who was likewise
probably hereditary clients of the Claudii. (Cic. one of them, Tyndareus, the husband of Led,
in Verr. iv. 3 ; comp. c. 17. )
gave her in marriage to Menelaus, who became by
1. Cn. Herus, one of the judices in the judicium her the father of Hermione, and, according to
Albianum, B. c. 74. (Cic. pro Cluent. 38. ) (Clu- others, of Nicostratus also. She was subsequently
ENTIUS. ]
seduced and carried off by Paris to Troy. [PARIS;
2. Helus, a citizen of Lilybaeum in Sicily, and MENELAUS. ) Ptolemaeus Hephaestion (4) men-
a ward of C. Claudius Pulcher, curule aedile in tions six other mythical personages of the same
B. C. 99. He was one of the many Sicilians whom name: 1. a daughter of Paris and Helena ; 2. a
Vertes, while praetor, robbed of money and works daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra ; 3. a
of art. (Cic. in Verr. iv. 17. )
daughter of Epidamnius; 4. a daughter of Faustulus,
3. C. Heius, the principal citizen of Messana in the shepherd who brought up Romulus and Remus;
Sicily, and head of the deputation which Verres 5. a daughter of Tityrus ; and 6. a daughter of
persuaded or compelled that city to send to Rome Micythus, the beloved of Stesichorus. (L. S. )
in B. c. 70, to give evidence in his favour, when HE'LENA, FLAVIA JU'LIA. 1. The
impeached by Cicero. But Heius, although he mother of Constantine the Great, was unquestion-
discharged his public commission, was in his own ably of low origin, perhaps the daughter of an inn-
person an important witness for the prosecution. keeper, but the report chronicled by Zosimus, and
He had, indeed, been one of the principal sufferers not rejected by Orosius, that she was not joined in
from the praetor's rapacity. Before the administra- lawful wedlock to Chlorus seems to be no less
tion of Verres Heius was the possessor, by long destitute of foundation than the monkish legend
inheritance, of some of the rarest and most perfect which represents her father as a British or Cale-
specimens of Grecian art. Among them were the donian king. When her husband was elevated to
famous Eros in marble by Praxiteles ; an equally the dignity of Caesar by Diocletian, in A. D. 292,
celebrated Heracles in bronze, by Myron ; Cane he was compelled to repudiate his wife, to make
phoroe, by Polycletus ; and Attalic tapestry, as way for Theodora, the step-child of Maximianus
rare and much more costly than the Gobelin tapestry Herculius: but the necessity of such a divorce is
of modern times. All these ancestral treasures of in itself a sufficient proof that the existing marriage
the Heian family, some of which being the furni- was regarded as regular and legal. Subsequently,
ture of the family-chapel, were sacred as well as when her son succeeded to the purple, Helena was
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371
HELENUS.
-
in some degree compensated for her suffering, for The dissertation of Eckhel, vol. viii. p.
she was treated during the remainder of her career 143, gives within a short compass the substanco
with the most marked distinction, received the of the different theories which have been
title of Augusta, and after her death, at an ad- broached from time to time by writers upon these
vanced age, about A. D. 328, her memory was kept topics.
[W. R. )
alive by the names of Helenopolis and Helenopon- HE'LENA ('ENévn), the daughter of Timon of
tus, bestowed respectively upon a city of Syria, a Egypt, painted the battle of Issus about the time
city of Bithynia, and a district bordering on the of its occurrence (B. C. 333). In the reign of Ves-
Euxine. The virtues of this holy lady, her attach- pasian this picture was placed in the Temple of
ment to the Christian faith, which she appears to Peace at Rome. (Ptol. Hephaest. ap. Phot. cod.
have embraced at the instance of Constantine, her 190, p. 149, b. 30, ed. Bekker. ) It is supposed
pilgrimage to Jerusalem, where she was believed by some scholars that the well-known mosaic found
to have discovered the sepulchre of our Lord, to- at Pompeii is a copy of this picture, while others
gether with the wood of ihe true cross, and her believe it to represent the battle at the Granicus,
zealous patronage of the faithful, have afforded a others that at Arbela. All that can be safely said
copious theme to Eusebius, Sozomenus, Theodore is, that the mosaic represents one of Alexander's
tus, and ecclesiastical historians, and, at a later battles, and that in all probability the person in the
period, procured for her the glory of canonisation. chariot is Dareius. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst,
(Gruter, C. I. cclxxxiv. 1 ; Eutrop. x. 2 ; Aurel. 163. n. 1, 6. )
[P. S. ]
Vict. Epit. 39, 40 ; Zosim. ii. 8; Oros. vii. 25; HE'LENUS ( Elevos), a son of Priam and
Euseb. Vit. Const. iii. 46, 47 ; Sozomen. ii. 1 ; Hecabe, was a skilful observer of auguries, and
Theodoret. i. 18. On the legitimacy of St. He knew the counsel of the gods (Hom. 1. vi. 76,
lena's marriage, see Tillemont, Histoire des Empe- vii. 44; Apollod. iii. 12. $ 5); but he was at the
reurs, vol. iv. , Notes sur l'Empereur Constantin, same time a warrior, and with Deiphobus he led
not. i. , and on the period of her death, not. lvii. ) the third host of the Trojans against the camp of
2. Daughter of Constantine the Great and the Greeks. (n. xii. 94. ) He fought against
Fausta, was given in marriage by her brother Menelaus, but was wounded by him(xiii. 580,
Constantius to her cousin Julian the Apostate, &c. ). This is in outline all that the Homeric poems
when the latter was nominated Caesar, towards tell us of Helenus, but in other traditions we find
the end of A. D. 355. She survived the union for the following additions. Once, when yet children,
five years only, until A. D.
360, having borne one Helenus and Cassandra were left by their parents
child, a boy, which died immediately after its birth. in the temple of the Thymbraean Apollo ; and, as
Her sterility, as well as the fate of this solitary they fell asleep, snakes came and cleaned their
infant, were ascribed, as we learn from Ammianus ears, whereby they acquired the gift of prophecy.
Marcellinus, to the guilty arts of her sister-in-law, (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 663. ) Another tradition
the empress Eusebia. (Amm. Marc. xv. 8. $ 18, was, that his original name was Scamandrius, and
xvi. 10. § 18, xxi. 1. § 5. )
that he received the name of Helenus from a
The medals belonging to this epoch which bear Thracian soothsayer, who also instructed him in
the name of Helena are peculiarly embarrassing, the prophetic art. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 626. )
since, in most cases, it is very difficult, if not im- Respecting his deserting his countrymen and join-
possible, to decide which belong to Helena the ing the Greeks, there are different accounts ; ac-
wife of Chlorus, which to Helena the wife of cording to some it was the act of his free will, and,
Julian, and which to Helena the wife of Crispus. according to others, he was ensnared by Odysseus,
The designation appears upon the obverses under who wanted to have his prophecy respecting the
four forms: 1. Fl. Jul. HELENAE. Aug. ; 2. fall of Troy. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 905; Soph. Phi-
Flavia or FL. HELENA. AUGUSTA ; 3. He- loct. 605, 1338 ; Ov. Met. xiii. 99, 723. ) Others
LENA. N. F. (Nobilis Femina); 4. HELENA FL. again relate that Chryses announced to the Greeks
Max. (Helena Flavia Maxima).
that Helenus was staying with him in the temple
of Apollo. When therefore Diomedes and Odysseus
were sent to fetch him, Helenus surrendered to them,
requesting them to assign to him a place where he
might live away from his own friends and relatives.
He then informed them that he had not left his
country and friends from fear of death, but on ac-
count of the sacrilege which Paris had committed,
in murdering Achilles in the temple, and told them
of the time and the circumstances under which
Troy should fall. (Dict. Cret. iv. 18. ) Others,
COIN OF HELENA, WIFE OF CONSTANTIUS lastly, relate that, on the death of Paris, Helenus
CHLORUS.
and Deiphobus disputed about the possession of
Helena, and that Helenus being conquered, fled to
Mount Ida, where he was taken prisoner by the
Greeks. (Conon, Narr. 34; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 166. )
In the Philoctetes of Sophocles, Helenus foretelis
to Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, that Troy shall fall
only through Pyrrhus and Philoctetes; and after
the destruction of the city, he reveals to Pyrrhus the
sufferings which awaited the Greeks who returned
home by sea, and prevails upon him to return by land,
COIN OF HELENA, WIFE OF CRISPUS OR and settle in Epeirus. (Serv. ad Aen. ii. 166. )
JULIANUS.
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HELIADAE.
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of the country, and married Andromache, by whom | Heliades. (Ov. Met. ii. 340, &c. ; Apollon. Rhod.
he became the father of Cestrinus. The remaining iv. 604. )
(L. S. )
part of Epeirus was given to Molossus, the son of HELIANAX ('HAával), brother of Stesi-
Pyrrhus. " (Paus. i. 11. § 1, &c. , ii. 23. § 6; Virg. chorus, who, according to Suidas (s. r. ), was a
Aen. iii. 295, 333. ) When Aeneas in his wander lawgiver, probably in one of the states of Si-
ings arrived in Epeirus, he was hospitably received cily.
(C. P. M. ]
by Helenus, who also foretold him the future HELIAS. (Elias. )
events of his life. (Virg. Aen. iii. 245, 374 ; Ov. HELICAON ('Elinaw), a son of Antenor,
Met. xv. 438. ) According to an Argive tradition, and husband of Laodice, a daughter of Priam.
Helenus was buried at Argos. (Paus. ii. 23. & 5. ) (Hom. 11. iji. 124; Paus. I. 26. $ 2. ) [LS]
A different person of the same name occurs in the HE’LICE ("Halan). ). A daughter of Lycaon,
Iliad (v. 707).
(L. S. ] was beloved by Zeus, but Hera, out of jealousy,
HELENUS (ⓇEAevos), son of Pyrrhus, king of metamorphosed her into a she-bear, whereupon
Epeirus, by Lanassi, daughter of Agathocles. He Zeus placed her among the stars, under the name
was very young when he accompanied his father on of the Great Northern Bear. (Serv, ad Virg. Georg.
his expedition to Italy, B. c. 280 ; but Pyrrhus is i. 138, 246. ) When Demeter invoked her, asking
said to have conceived the project, when elated for information about her lost daughter, Helice
with his first successes in Sicily, of establishing referred her to Helios. (Ov. Fast. iv. 580. ). Hy
Helenus there as king of the island, to which as ginus (P’oct. A str. ii. 2, 13) calls her a daughter of
grandson of Agathocles he appeared to have a sort Olenus, and says that she brought up Zeus.
of hereditary claim. (Just. xviii, 1, xxiii. 3. ) But 2. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
the tide of fortune soon turned ; and when Pyrrhus The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to
saw himself compelled to abandon both Sicily and have derived its name from her. (Paus vii. 1. $ 2;
Italy, he left Helenus at Tarentum, together with Steph. Byz. s. r. )
Milo, to command the garrison of that city, the 3. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hye
only place in Italy of which he still retained pos- ginus. (Fab. 170. )
(L. S. ]
session. It was not long before he recalled them HELICON ('EÁikár), a native of Cyzicus, a
both from thence, in consequence of the unex- friend and disciple of Plato. He was for some
pected views that had opened to his ambition in time a resident at the court of Dionysius the
Macedonia and Greece. Helenus accompanied his Younger, and was presented by him with a talent
father on his expedition into the Peloponnese of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of
(B. c. 272), and after the fatal night attack on the sun. (Plut. Dion. p. 966. ) According to Sui-
Argos, in which Pyrrhus himself perished, he fell | das (s. v. ), he wrote a work entitled 'ATOTENé Ouara
into the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, who how- and a treatise lepi Aloonueiav. [C. P. M. )
ever behaved towards him in the most magnani- HE’LICON ('EALKWY), the son of Acesas, of
mous manner, treated him with the utmost dis- Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in
tinction, and sent him back in safety to Epeirus, weaving variegated garments and hangings. He
bearing with him the remains of his father. (Just. made the war cloak (ÉTITOPTQua) which the Rho-
xxv. 3, 5; Plut. Pyrrh. 33, 34. ) After this we dians presented to Alexander the Great (Plut.
hear no more of him.
Aler. 32. ) Plutarch's addition to his name of the
2. A freedman of Octavian, who enjoyed a high words toỦ Talaloù, makes it probable that he lived
place in his favour. He was taken prisoner in about the time of Phidias, under whose direction
Sardinia by Maenas, the lieutenant of Sext. we know that artists of his class (TOLKATA)
Pompey (B. C. 40), but the latter set him at liberty wrought. (Plut. Peric. 12.
