id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3342 Aletes (Heraclid) - Wikipedia .html text/html 545 131 66 Aletes (Ancient Greek: Ἀλήτης) was a son of Hippotes, of Dorian ancestry, and a fifth-generation descendant of Heracles.[1] He is said to have defeated in battle the Corinthians, taken possession of Corinth, and to have expelled the Sisyphids[2] 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).[3][4][5][6] Velleius Paterculus calls him a descendant of Heracles, but of the sixth generation.[7] 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 article relating to Greek mythology is a stub. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRBM Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRBM without a Wikisource reference Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the DGRBM Edit links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3342.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3342.txt