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EMILY VARTO

Dalhousie University

The “sons of Aleuas,” an elite Thessalian FAMILY named for a legendary founder figure Aleuas, who was selected as king of THESSALY by the PYTHIA (Plut. De frat. amor. 492a–b); powerful in LARISSA as politicians and legendary founders of the Thessalian state (Hellanicus BNJ 4 F52; Arist. Pol. 5.6). In Pythian 10, PINDAR is called upon by the sons of Aleuas to PRAISE a Thessalian victor (Pyth. 10.5), who presumably belonged to the family. The ode was commissioned by THORAX, member of the Aleuadae, and praises him and his unnamed brothers for their good governance of the Thessalian state (Pyth. 10.64–72). These are seemingly the same brothers—Thorax, EURYPYLUS, and THRASYDEIUS—named by Herodotus (9.58) as the Aleuadae who surrendered Thessaly to the Persians and made an alliance with XERXES in 480 BCE (cf. 7.6, 130, 172; 9.1). In this, Herodotus puts the Aleuadae on par with other Medizing elite families like the PEISISTRATIDAE at ATHENS (7.6), who welcomed the Persian invasion. In the Histories, Xerxes assumes the alliance with the Aleuadae represents FRIENDSHIP with Thessaly as a whole (7.130); however, Herodotus later recounts that the Thessalians, maneuvering against the Aleuadae’s alliance with PERSIA, send their own embassies to the Greeks in advance of Xerxes’ invasion (7.172), implying that the Aleuadae could not force Thessaly as a whole to cooperate with Persia. According to Herodotus, Thorax accompanied Xerxes back to ASIA on his retreat from Greece and continued to press MARDONIUS to invade again (9.1).

SEE ALSO: Allies; Athletes and Athletic Games; Medize