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This Aeolus was son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus, Xuthus and, in some sources, of Amphictyon ( who is otherwise a brother of Hellen ).
Described as the ruler of Aeolia ( later called Thessaly ) and held to be the founder of the Aeolic branch of the Greek nation, this Aeolus married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus ( otherwise unknown ).
Aeolus and Enarete had many children, although the precise number and identities of these children vary from author to author in the ancient sources.
The great extent of country which this race occupied, and the desire of each part of it to trace its origin to some descendant of Aeolus, probably gave rise to the varying accounts about the number of his children.
Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race.
Other sons included Deioneus, Perieres, Cercaphas and perhaps Magnes ( usually regarded as a brother of Macedon ) and Aethlius.
Another son is named Mimas, who provides a link to the third Aeolus in a genealogy that seems very contrived.
Calyce, Peisidice, Perimede and Alcyone were counted among the daughters of Aeolus and Enarete.
This Aeolus also had an illegitimate daughter named Arne, begotten on Melanippe, daughter of the Centaur Cheiron.
This Arne became the mother of the second Aeolus, by the god Poseidon.

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