Ellotia
or
Hellotia (
τὰ ἐλλώτια or
ἑλλώτια). A festival with a torch-race celebrated at Corinth in
honour of Athené as a goddess of fire (Athen. xv. p. 678 a, b).
A festival of the same name was celebrated in Crete in honour of Europa. The
ἑλλωτίς, from which the festival derived its name, was, according to
Seleucus (
ap. Athen. l. c.), a myrtle garland twenty cubits in
circumference, which was carried about in the procession at the festival of the Ellotia.