Ialysus
- A son of the fourth Sol, acc. to Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 54; a famous picture of him by Protogenes, at Rhodes, afterwards in Rome, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135; id. Or. 2, 5; Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 102; Gell. 15, 31, 3.—
- II f., an ancient city of Rhodes, now the village of Ialiso, Mel. 2, 7, 4; Plin. 5, 31, 35, § 132.— Hence,
- B Deriv. Ĭālysĭus, a, um, adj., of Ialysus: Telchines, Ov. M. 7, 365.
- 1. f stad op het eiland Rhodos; — adj. Iālysius, a, um ook Rhodisch;
- 2. m stichter v. bovengenoemde stad.
(Ἰάλυσος), a son of Cercaphus and Cydippe or Lysippe, and grandson of Helios. He was a brother of Lindus and Cameirus, in conjunction with whom he possessed the island of Rhodes, where he was regarded as the founder of the town of Ialysus. Pindar calls him the eldest among the three brothers. Olymp. 7.74, with the Schol.; Diod. 5.57; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 315.) Ialysus was represented as a hero in a very famous painting by Protogenes. [L.S]
IA´LYSUS (Ἰάλυσος, Ἄλυσσος, or Ἰήλυσσος: Eth. Ιαλύσσιος), one of the three ancient Doric cities in the island of Rhodes, and one of the six towns constituting the Doric hexapolis. It was situated only six stadia to the south-west of the city of Rhodes, and it would seem that the rise of the latter city was the cause of the decay of Ialysus; for in the time of Strabo (14. p. 655) it existed only as a village. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.36) did not consider it as an independent place at all, but imagined that Ialysus was the ancient name of Rhodes. Orychoma, the citadel, was situated above Ialysus, and still existed in Orychoma was the same as the fort Achaia, which is said to have been the first settlement of the Heliadae in the island (Diod. Sic. 5.57; Athen. 8. p. 360); at any rate, Achaia was situated in the territory of Ialysus, which bore the name Ialysia. (Comp. Hom. Il. 2.656; Pind. O. 7.106; Hdt. 2.182; Thucyd. 8.44 ; Ptol. 5.2.34; Steph. B. s. v.; Scylax, Peripl. p. 81; Dionys. Perieg. 504; Ov. Met. 7.365; Pomp. Mela, 2.7.) The site of ancient Ialysus is still occupied by a village bearing the name Ialiso, about which a few ancient remains are found. (Ross, Reisen auf den Griech. Inseln, vol. 3. p. 98.)
[L.S](Ἰάλυσος). One of the three ancient Dorian cities in the island of Rhodes, on the northwestern coast of the island, about sixty stadia southwest of Rhodes. It was one of the six members of the so-called Dorian Hexapolis, and was said to have derived its name from that of the hero Ialysus, grandson of Helios. See Doris.