Halizones

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The Halizones (Halizonians) are an obscure people that appear in Homer's Iliad as allies of Troy during the Trojan War. Their leaders were Odius and Epistrophus, said by Apollodorus to be sons of a man named Mecisteus. According to Homer, the Halizones came from "Alybe far away, where is the birth-place of silver,..." Strabo (in his Geography) speculates that "Alybe far away" may originally have read as "Chalybe far away", and suggests that the Halizones may have been Chalybes. There has been much speculation since as to the origin of the name 'Halizones', with connections to both 'Amazons' and the River Halys both suggested. It is not even clear that the Halizones ever existed, or even if Homer knew they existed.