, as he is Andromeda, who joined Amphitryon in the war
apparently mentioned by Galen as a contemporary against the Teleboans, and received from him the
of several physicians who lived at Alexandria islands of the Taphians.
apparently mentioned by Galen as a contemporary against the Teleboans, and received from him the
of several physicians who lived at Alexandria islands of the Taphians.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Ctesiph.
and elsewhere); and it is probable that 'Agaolas p. 409; Suid. Hesych. , Phot. , s. v. ; Plut. Demosth.
is a genuine Ionic name, derived from éyauas, like 17, Apophthegm. p. 187, d. ; Ruhnken, Hist. Crit.
'Aγασιθέα, Αγασικλής, Αγασισθένης. For these | Οrat. Graec. 33. p. xxix. )
P
and other reasons, it seems that the identity of 2. A comic poet of the New Comedy, who
Hegesias with Agasias cannot be made out, while flourished about B. C. 300. Two of his comedies
that of Hegesias with Hegias is highly probable. are quoted, 'AdeApoi and Quétaipo. Suidas (s.
It is true that Pliny mentions them as different v. ) confounds him with the orator. (Athen, vii
.
persons, but nothing is more likely than that Pliny p. 279, d. , p. 290, b. , ix. p. 405, d. ; Meineke,
should have put together the statements of two Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 475-477. )
different Greek authors, of whom the one wrote the 3. Of Tarentum, a writer of 'Oyapturiká (Athen.
artist's full name, 'Hmolas, while the other used X. p. 429, d. ; xii. p. 516, c. ; Pollux, vi. 10. )
the abbreviated form, 'Hylas. Pliny is certainly 4. A Greek historian or topographer of Mecy-
wrong when, in enumerating the works of Hegias, berna, who wrote an account of the peninsula of
* Minerva Pyrrhusque rex laudatur. ” Pallene. He is mentioned by Dionysius among
What is meant seems to have been a group, in ávöpes apxaioi kal núyou aţiol. (Ant. Rom. i. 49;
which (not the king, but) the hero Pyrrhus was Steph. Byz. s. v. Malývn and Mnkubepva ; Vos-
represented as supported by Pallas. The statues sius, de Hist. Graec. p. 448, ed. Westermann. )
of Castor and Pollux, by Hegesias, are supposed 5. The author of eight epigrams in the Greek
by Winckelmann to be the same as those which Anthology, which appear, from the simplicity of the
now stand on the stairs leading to the capitol ; but style, to be of an early date. (Brunck, Anal. vol.
this is very doubtful. (Winckelmann, Geschichte d. i. p. 254; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 187,
K'unst, bk. ix, c. 9. $ 31, and Vorläufige Abhand- vol. xiii. p. 901. )
[P. S. )
lung, § 100 ; Sillig, Catal. Artif. s. r. ; Thiersch, HEGESI'PYLA ('Hynoithan), daughter of
Epochen, p. 128; Müller, Aeginetica, p. 102. ) [P. S. ) Olorus, king of Thrace, and wife of Miltiades. A
HEGESICLES. [AGASICLES. ]
son of hers, named Olorus, after his grandfather,
HEGESIDE'MUS ('Hyoionuos), an author of was the father of Thucydides the historian. In ail
uncertain date, quoted by Pliny. (H. N. ix. 8. ) probability, he was the fruit of a second mar-
The reference seems to be to an historical work, riage contracted by Hegesipyla after the death
but even this is not certain.
(E. E. ] of Miltiades. (Herod. vi. 39; Marcellin. Vit.
HEGESIGONUS ('Hyolyovos), a Greek Thuc. )
(E. E. ]
writer, perhaps an historian, of uncertain country HEGESI'STRATUS ('Hynolot patos). 1. A
and date. It is questionable whether the name be son of Peisistratus by an Argive woman, was
not another form of Hesigonus. (Tzetz. Chil. i. placed by his father in the tyranny of Sigeium in
18, 469, vi. 144, 645; Schol. ad Lycophr. 1021; the Troad, and maintained possession of the city
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 447, ed. Wester- against the attacks of the Mytilenaeans. Wheu
mann. )
(E. E. ] Hippias was banished from Athens, in B. c. 510,
HEGESILA'US. [AGESANDER or Agesi- he took refuge with his brother, Hegesistratus, at
LAUS. )
Sigeium (Herod. v. 94 ; Thuc. vi. 59).
HEGESI'LOCHUS. (Agesilochus. ) 2. An Elean soothsayer, one of the Telliadae.
HEGESINUS ('Hynoivous), a writer of uncer- The Spartans, whose enemy he was, having once
tain date, author of a poem on Attica, called Ateís, I got him into their power, confined him with his
BB
he says,
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IIEIUS.
HELENA
3
foot in a species of stocks, intending to put him to priceless, Verres purchased from their reluctant
death ; but Hegesistratus cut his foot off with a owner at a nominal price, borrowed without return-
knife, escaped from prison, and fled to Tegen, ing, or seized without apology, until both the house
which was then at war with the Lacedaemonians. and lararium of Heius were stripped bare of every
He was hired by Mardonius, and acted as sooth- work of art, except one ancient piece, probably of
bayer for the Persians at the battle of Platnen, B. C. Pelasgian manufacture, which was neither beautiful
479; some time after which he fell again into the nor curious enough for the praetor's cabinet.
hands of the Spartans, at Zacynthus, and was put Verres bad been equally unscrupulous with the
to death by them. (Herod. ix. 37. )
money and property of Heius, who declared, when
3. A Samian, was among those who were sent from examined by Cicero, that so far from consenting to
Samos to Leotychides, the Spartan king, in com- the sale of his statues, no price could have induced
mand of the Greek fleet at Delos, to urge him to him to alienate them from the Heian inheritance.
come to the aid of the lonians against the Persians. (Cic. in Verr. ii. 5, iv. 2, 7, 67, v. 18. ) (W. B. D. )
Leotychides accepted the name Hegesistratus HE'LARA ('EAápn), a daughter of Orchomenus,
(conductor of the army) as a good omen, and com- became by Zeus the mother of Tityus, but the god,
plied with the request. The result was the battle from fear of Hera, concealed her under the earth.
of Mycale, B. c. 479. (Herod. ix. 90-92. ) [E. E. ] (A pollod. i. 4. $1; Apollon. Rhod. i. 762 ; Strab.
HEGEʻTOR ('Hymtwp), a surgeon, who pro- ir. p. 423. )
(L S. )
bably lived at Alexandria at the end of the second HELETUS (Enclos), a son of Perseus and
or the beginning of the first century B. C.
, as he is Andromeda, who joined Amphitryon in the war
apparently mentioned by Galen as a contemporary against the Teleboans, and received from him the
of several physicians who lived at Alexandria islands of the Taphians. (Apollod. ii. 4. $$ 5, 7 ;
about that time. (De Dignosc. Puls. iv. 3, vol. viii. Schol. ad Hom. Il. xix. 116 ; Strab. vüi. 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
## p. 371 (#387) ############################################
HELENA.
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.
and elsewhere); and it is probable that 'Agaolas p. 409; Suid. Hesych. , Phot. , s. v. ; Plut. Demosth.
is a genuine Ionic name, derived from éyauas, like 17, Apophthegm. p. 187, d. ; Ruhnken, Hist. Crit.
'Aγασιθέα, Αγασικλής, Αγασισθένης. For these | Οrat. Graec. 33. p. xxix. )
P
and other reasons, it seems that the identity of 2. A comic poet of the New Comedy, who
Hegesias with Agasias cannot be made out, while flourished about B. C. 300. Two of his comedies
that of Hegesias with Hegias is highly probable. are quoted, 'AdeApoi and Quétaipo. Suidas (s.
It is true that Pliny mentions them as different v. ) confounds him with the orator. (Athen, vii
.
persons, but nothing is more likely than that Pliny p. 279, d. , p. 290, b. , ix. p. 405, d. ; Meineke,
should have put together the statements of two Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 475-477. )
different Greek authors, of whom the one wrote the 3. Of Tarentum, a writer of 'Oyapturiká (Athen.
artist's full name, 'Hmolas, while the other used X. p. 429, d. ; xii. p. 516, c. ; Pollux, vi. 10. )
the abbreviated form, 'Hylas. Pliny is certainly 4. A Greek historian or topographer of Mecy-
wrong when, in enumerating the works of Hegias, berna, who wrote an account of the peninsula of
* Minerva Pyrrhusque rex laudatur. ” Pallene. He is mentioned by Dionysius among
What is meant seems to have been a group, in ávöpes apxaioi kal núyou aţiol. (Ant. Rom. i. 49;
which (not the king, but) the hero Pyrrhus was Steph. Byz. s. v. Malývn and Mnkubepva ; Vos-
represented as supported by Pallas. The statues sius, de Hist. Graec. p. 448, ed. Westermann. )
of Castor and Pollux, by Hegesias, are supposed 5. The author of eight epigrams in the Greek
by Winckelmann to be the same as those which Anthology, which appear, from the simplicity of the
now stand on the stairs leading to the capitol ; but style, to be of an early date. (Brunck, Anal. vol.
this is very doubtful. (Winckelmann, Geschichte d. i. p. 254; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 187,
K'unst, bk. ix, c. 9. $ 31, and Vorläufige Abhand- vol. xiii. p. 901. )
[P. S. )
lung, § 100 ; Sillig, Catal. Artif. s. r. ; Thiersch, HEGESI'PYLA ('Hynoithan), daughter of
Epochen, p. 128; Müller, Aeginetica, p. 102. ) [P. S. ) Olorus, king of Thrace, and wife of Miltiades. A
HEGESICLES. [AGASICLES. ]
son of hers, named Olorus, after his grandfather,
HEGESIDE'MUS ('Hyoionuos), an author of was the father of Thucydides the historian. In ail
uncertain date, quoted by Pliny. (H. N. ix. 8. ) probability, he was the fruit of a second mar-
The reference seems to be to an historical work, riage contracted by Hegesipyla after the death
but even this is not certain.
(E. E. ] of Miltiades. (Herod. vi. 39; Marcellin. Vit.
HEGESIGONUS ('Hyolyovos), a Greek Thuc. )
(E. E. ]
writer, perhaps an historian, of uncertain country HEGESI'STRATUS ('Hynolot patos). 1. A
and date. It is questionable whether the name be son of Peisistratus by an Argive woman, was
not another form of Hesigonus. (Tzetz. Chil. i. placed by his father in the tyranny of Sigeium in
18, 469, vi. 144, 645; Schol. ad Lycophr. 1021; the Troad, and maintained possession of the city
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 447, ed. Wester- against the attacks of the Mytilenaeans. Wheu
mann. )
(E. E. ] Hippias was banished from Athens, in B. c. 510,
HEGESILA'US. [AGESANDER or Agesi- he took refuge with his brother, Hegesistratus, at
LAUS. )
Sigeium (Herod. v. 94 ; Thuc. vi. 59).
HEGESI'LOCHUS. (Agesilochus. ) 2. An Elean soothsayer, one of the Telliadae.
HEGESINUS ('Hynoivous), a writer of uncer- The Spartans, whose enemy he was, having once
tain date, author of a poem on Attica, called Ateís, I got him into their power, confined him with his
BB
he says,
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IIEIUS.
HELENA
3
foot in a species of stocks, intending to put him to priceless, Verres purchased from their reluctant
death ; but Hegesistratus cut his foot off with a owner at a nominal price, borrowed without return-
knife, escaped from prison, and fled to Tegen, ing, or seized without apology, until both the house
which was then at war with the Lacedaemonians. and lararium of Heius were stripped bare of every
He was hired by Mardonius, and acted as sooth- work of art, except one ancient piece, probably of
bayer for the Persians at the battle of Platnen, B. C. Pelasgian manufacture, which was neither beautiful
479; some time after which he fell again into the nor curious enough for the praetor's cabinet.
hands of the Spartans, at Zacynthus, and was put Verres bad been equally unscrupulous with the
to death by them. (Herod. ix. 37. )
money and property of Heius, who declared, when
3. A Samian, was among those who were sent from examined by Cicero, that so far from consenting to
Samos to Leotychides, the Spartan king, in com- the sale of his statues, no price could have induced
mand of the Greek fleet at Delos, to urge him to him to alienate them from the Heian inheritance.
come to the aid of the lonians against the Persians. (Cic. in Verr. ii. 5, iv. 2, 7, 67, v. 18. ) (W. B. D. )
Leotychides accepted the name Hegesistratus HE'LARA ('EAápn), a daughter of Orchomenus,
(conductor of the army) as a good omen, and com- became by Zeus the mother of Tityus, but the god,
plied with the request. The result was the battle from fear of Hera, concealed her under the earth.
of Mycale, B. c. 479. (Herod. ix. 90-92. ) [E. E. ] (A pollod. i. 4. $1; Apollon. Rhod. i. 762 ; Strab.
HEGEʻTOR ('Hymtwp), a surgeon, who pro- ir. p. 423. )
(L S. )
bably lived at Alexandria at the end of the second HELETUS (Enclos), a son of Perseus and
or the beginning of the first century B. C.
, as he is Andromeda, who joined Amphitryon in the war
apparently mentioned by Galen as a contemporary against the Teleboans, and received from him the
of several physicians who lived at Alexandria islands of the Taphians. (Apollod. ii. 4. $$ 5, 7 ;
about that time. (De Dignosc. Puls. iv. 3, vol. viii. Schol. ad Hom. Il. xix. 116 ; Strab. vüi. 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
## p. 371 (#387) ############################################
HELENA.
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. )
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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.
