HA´LIA
HA´LIA or
HALIEIA (
Ἅλια,
Ἁλίεια),
one of the principal festivals celebrated in the island of Rhodes, in honour
of Helios, Doric Halios, the sun-god. It was held every year, with gymnic
and musical contests and a great procession. The prize of the victors in the
contest was a white wreath. It was on this occasion, the 24th of the month
of Gorpiacus, that the Rhodians drove into the sea a quadriga as an offering
to the god. (Schol.
ad
Pind. O. 7.146; Xenoph. Ephes. 5.11; Fest.
s. v.
October equus; Näke,
Opusc. i. p. 339, &c.)
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