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Halios

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Canonical name
Halios
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None
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Character
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Individual
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Aliases

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Halius

Alternative name · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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ring used for the Phaeacian ball dance1 observation
·Direct

Halios danced with the red ball in the Phaeacian ball-dance ring.

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“Then Alcinous told Laodamas and Halius to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them. So they took a red ball which Polybus had made for them, and one of them bent himself backwards and threw it up towards the clouds, while the other jumped from off the ground and caught it with ease before it came down again. When they had done throwing the ball straight up into the air they began to dance, and at the same time kept on throwing it backwards and forwards to one another, while all the young men in the ring applauded and made a great stamping with their feet. Then Ulysses said:”

Claims

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·Direct

Halios is one of Alcinous’s three competing sons.

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“Three sons of Al cinous, Laodamas, Halios, and Clytoneus, competed also.”
·Direct

Halius and Laodamas dance alone because no one can compete with them.

See evidence text
“Then Alcinous told Laodamas and Halius to dance alone, for there was no one to compete with them.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“Laodamas, Halios, and Clytoneus”

Passage preview

Book 8 · Passage 8

With these words he led the way, and the others followed after. A servant hung Demodocus’s lyre on its peg for him, led him out of the cloister, and set him on the same way as that along which all the chief men of the Phaeacians were going to see the sports; a crowd of several thousands of people followed them, and there were many excellent competitors for all the prizes. Acroneos, Ocyalus, Elatreus, Nauteus, Prymneus, Anchialus, Eretmeus, Ponteus, Proreus, Thoon, Anabesineus, and Amphialus son of Polyneus son of Tecton. There was also Euryalus son of Naubolus, who was like Mars himself, and was the best looking man among the Phaeacians except Laodamas. Three sons of Al cinous, Laodamas, Halios, and Clytoneus, competed also.