Aleuas
Aleuas or Alevas ( el, Ἀλεύας) can refer to more than one person from ancient Greek myth and history: *Aleuas, the mythical king and seer of Thessaly who was the eponymous ancestor of the noble Aleuadae family of Larissa. ''See: Aleuadae.'' *Aleuas, a historical artist who was famous in his day for his statues of philosophers.Pliny the Elder, ''Natural History (Pliny), Naturalis Historia'' xxxiv. 8. s. 19, 26 References

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Aleuadae
The Aleuadae ( grc, Ἀλευάδαι) were an ancient Thessalian family of Larissa, who claimed descent from the mythical Aleuas. The Aleuadae were the noblest and most powerful among all the families of Thessaly, whence Herodotus calls its members "rulers" or "kings" ().Herodotus, vii. 6 Aleuas The first Aleuas, who bore the epithet of ''Pyrrhos'' (), that is, "red-haired", is called king, or ''Tagus'', of Thessaly, and a descendant of Heracles through Thessalus.Ulpian, ''ad Dem. Olynth.'' i Aleuas played no role his eponymous dynasty outside his kinship's veneration of him at an unidentified sanctuary in Thessaly, but Aelian recorded the myth of how he became a divinely-inspired seer, in the fashion of a gift from a serpent: while he was tending sheep on the slopes of Mount Ossa, a serpent became enamored of him, kissed his hair, licked his face and brought him gifts. According to the '' Bibliotheca'', a grateful brood of serpents, in return for his having erected a funera ...
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