Ellotia
ἐλλώτια
Ellotia or HELLOTIA (ἐλλώτια or ἑλλώτια), a festival with a torch race celebrated at Corinth in honour of Athena as a goddess of fire. (Schol. Pind. Ol. 13.56; Athen. 15.678 a, b; Etym. M. s. v. Ἑλλωτίς.)
A festival of the same name was celebrated in Crete, in honour of Europa. The word ἑλλωτίς, from which the festival derived its name, was, according to Seleucus (ap. Athen. l.c.), a myrtle garland twenty cubits in circumference, which was carried about in the procession at the festival of the Ellotia. (Compare Hesych. and Etym. M. s. v. Ἑλλώτια.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.