Halia
HALIA
HA´LIA(ἁλία). [GEROUSIA]
HALIA
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.)
[L.S]Halia
See Helios, p. 780.
Halia
Halia, a town in Argolis
- Hdt. 7.137