Aletes, son of Hippotes

Aletes (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλήτης) was a son of Hippotes and a fifth-generation descendant of Heracles.cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Aletes | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 109 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0118.html ] He is said to have taken possession of Corinth, and to have expelled the Sisyphids thirty years after the first invasion of the Peloponnesus by the Heraclids. His family, sometimes called the "Aletidae", maintained themselves at Corinth down to the time of Bacchis (that is, late 10th century BC). [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" ii. 4. § 3, v. 18. § 2] [Strabo, viii. p. 389] [Callimachus, "Fragments" 103] [Pindar, "Olympian Odes" xiii. 17] Velleius Paterculus calls him a descendant of Heracles, but of the sixth generation. [Velleius Paterculus, i. 3] He received an oracle, promising him the sovereignty of Athens if during the war, which was then going on, its king should remain uninjured. This oracle became known at Athens, and the Athenian king Codrus sacrificed himself to preserve the city. [Conon, "Narrat." 26]

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