The union of Aloeus and Iphimedeia is another of those marriages of uncles with their nieces that are so famous in ancient Greek mythology. The lineages on both sides of their marriage were pregnant with divinity: Aloeus was the son of Kanake by Poseidon, who thus engendered him as he did Pelias and Neleus by Tyro; and Iphimedeia was the daughter of Triops (or Triopas), whom Joseph Fontenrose has identified with Zeus Triops, “Three-eyed Zeus,” though Apollodoros makes him Kanake’s son by Poseidon and Aloeus’ brother. According to at least one ancient form of the Aload twins’ story, Otos and Ephialtes were not actually Iphimedeia’s children but the children of Ge (Earth), whom Iphimedeia then raised as their foster mother. The monstrous Aloads shared miserable fates with most of Poseidon’s unhappy mortal progeny, including Odysseus’ Polyphemos.