Halia

(Ἁλία).

1. One of the Nereides (Hom. Il. 18.42; Apollod. 1.2.6); but the plural, Haliae, is used as a name for marine nymphs in general. (Soph. Philoct. 1470; Callim. Hymn. in Dian. 13.)

2. A sister of the Telchines in Rhodes, by whom Poseidon had six sons and one daughter, Rhodos or Rhode, from whom the island of Rhodes received its name. Halia, after leaping into the sea, received the name of Leucothea, and was worshipped as a divine being by the Rhodians. (Diod. 5.55; comp. Rhodos.) [L.S]

HA´LIA(ἁλία). [GEROUSIA]

HA´LIAor 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. 1. p. 339, &c.)

See Helios, p. 780.

• Hdt. 7.137