Halia
Ἅλια
Halia or 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. i. p. 339, &c.)
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.