[1] When Spartaeus and his brothers were still young men, Aphrodite travelling from Cythera to Cyprus, dropped near Rhodes but was prevented by the sons of Poseidon and Halia.
[2] Jennifer Larson observes that the dictionary compiler Hesychius of Alexandria gives ίμαλιά.
denoting an abundance of wheat meal, and notes the agricultural connotations of the sons' names: "Spartaios recalls sowing, and Kytos means a basket or jar.
Kronios denotes a descendant of Kronos, the god of the Golden Age",[3] a mythic time of ease and abundance.
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