Classical summaries identify Aleuas as a mythical king and seer of Thessaly who serves as the eponymous ancestor of the noble Aleuadae family of Larissa (see Aleuadae). Sources indicate the name Aleuas can refer to more than one person in ancient Greek myth and history: the mythic founder/seer and at least one historical individual noted as an artist famed for statues of philosophers. The primary attestation in the provided materials is summary and genealogical: Aleuas functions as an ancestral founder invoked to legitimize a noble house in the Thessalian civic landscape (Wikipedia summary drawing on classical reference traditions).
The supplied summaries give no physical description of Aleuas. Classical references in the provided material identify him by social and functional attributes—king and seer—and by eponymy (founder of the Aleuadae), but do not record pictorial or bodily details. Therefore he is known through role and lineage rather than preserved descriptive folklore in the cited sources.
In the available summaries Aleuas is described as a 'seer', which in classical contexts signals that he was credited with prophetic or divinatory capacity; however, the provided sources do not record specific prophetic acts, magical feats, or recurring supernatural behaviors. Aside from the title 'seer' and his status as a king/founder, no concrete abilities or exemplars of divination are preserved in the cited materials. The historical-person usage of the same name (an artist famed for statues of philosophers) is distinct and non-supernatural.
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- [2]Wikidata entry: Aleuas. Wikidata. "Aleuas" (Q10404814). http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q10404814other
- [3]Jamides aleuas (butterfly) — Wikipedia (namesake). Wikipedia contributors. "Jamides aleuas." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamides_aleuaswiki
- [4]Aleuas paranensis — species information (namesake). Biodiversity record. "Species Information - Aleuas paranensis Carbonell 2008." https://biodar.unlp.edu.ar/acridomorph/en/info/20239.htmlother
- [5]Aleuas uruguayensis — species information (namesake). Biodiversity record. "Species Information - Aleuas uruguayensis Carbonell 2008." https://biodar.unlp.edu.ar/acridomorph/en/info/20240.htmlother
- [6]Larissa — location context. Reference. "Larissa." https://www.plato-dialogues.org/tools/loc/larissa.htmother
