According to the scholiast on Pindar (Ol. xiii. 56), the name was derived from the fertile marsh (elos) near Marathon, where Athena had a sanctuary ; or from Hellotia, one of the daughters of Timander, who fled into the temple of Athena when Corinth was burnt down by the Dorians, and was destroyed in the temple with her sister Eurytione.
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Asclepiodorus of Macedon, son of Timander, was one of the generals of Alexander the Great