Aeolus had six sons and six daughters, whom in Homer he wed to one another and the family lived happily together.

Briefly, the first Aeolus was a son of Hellen and eponymous founder of the Aeolian race ; the second was a son of Poseidon, who led a colony to islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea ; and the third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in Odyssey book 10 as Keeper of the Winds who gives Odysseus a tightly closed bag full of the captured winds so he could sail easily home to Ithaca on the gentle West Wind.

This Aeolus also had an illegitimate daughter named Arne, begotten on Melanippe, daughter of the Centaur Cheiron.

Another list of Aeolus ' children is found in scholia on the Odyssey.

They state that these were originally the seven days each year ( either side of the shortest day of the year ) during which Alcyone ( as a kingfisher ) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety.

It was also the subject of Euripides ' lost play Aeolus, on which the extant versions appear to be based.

According to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women on the origin of the Greeks, Hellen's three sons Dorus, Xuthus ( with his sons Ion and Achaeus ) and Aeolus, comprised the set of progenitors of the major ancient tribes that formed the Greek nation.

Euripides's play, Ion, provides an unusual alternate version, according to which Xuthus is son of Aeolus and Cyane and Ion has in fact been begotten on Xuthus's wife Creusa by Apollo.

* Vulcan and Aeolus ( c. 1490 ) Oil and tempera on canvas, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Some other artists, authors and works published in transition included Samuel Beckett ( Assumption, For Future Reference ), Kay Boyle ( Dedicated to Guy Urquhart ), H. D. ( Gift, Psyche, Dream, No, Socratic ), Max Ernst ( Jeune Filles en des Belles Poses, The Virgin Corrects the Child Jesus before Three Witnesses ), Stuart Gilbert ( The Aeolus Episode in Ulysses, Function of Words, Joyce Thesaurus Minusculus ), Juan Gris ( Still Life ), Ernest Hemingway ( Three Stories, Hills like White Elephants ), Franz Kafka ( The Metamorphosis ), Alfred Kreymborg ( from: Manhattan Anthology ), Pablo Picasso ( Petite Fille Lisant ), Muriel Rukeyser ( Lover as Fox ), Gertrude Stein ( An Elucidation, The Life and Death of Juan Gris, Tender Buttons, Made a Mile Away ), William Carlos Williams ( The Dead Baby, The Somnambulists, A Note on the Recent Work of James Joyce, Winter, Improvisations, A Voyage to Paraguay ).

Designated hiking trails are located on Mount Equinox, Dorset Mountain, and Mount Aeolus, and several other peaks within the region.

Trygaeus ' flight on the dung beetle is a parody of Euripides ' play Bellerephon, his daughter's appeal to him is a parody of a speech from Aeolus ( 114-23 ) and there is a deliberate misquote from his play Telephus ( 528 ).

* SparkNotes on Aeolus

and she became pregnant and bore to thunder-loving Zeus, two sons, Magnes and Macedon, the horse lover, those who dwelt in mansions around Pieria and Olympus ".< ref > Greek text: The poetic epithet " hippiocharmes " can alternatively be translated " fighting on horseback " or " chariot-fighter " and has also been attributed to Aeolus son of Hellen, Troilus and Amythaon.

Odysseus ends up on an island where King Aeolus ( Michael J. Pollard ) ends up providing him with a bag of wind to help him home and to open it when he gets close to Ithaca.

According to Diodorus, he was father of six sons by Cyane, daughter of Liparus ( the eponym of the island Lipara, whom Aeolus assisted in conquering lands above Surrentum, Italy ).

Despite any difficulties with Homer's description of the island, in classical and Roman times the island now called " Ithaca " was universally held to be the home of Odysseus ; the Hellenistic identifications of Homeric sites, such as the identifications of Lipari as the island of Aeolus, are usually taken with a grain of salt, and attributed to the ancient tourist trade.

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 ).

Unfortunately, they were blown back to Aeolia, where Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the Gods did not favour them.

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Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.

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 ).

This Aeolus was a son of Poseidon by Arne, sister of Aeolus.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

This Aeolus was perceived by post-Homeric authors as a god, rather than as a mortal and simple Keeper of the Winds ( as in the Odyssey ).

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

Parthenius of Nicaea recorded a love affair between Odysseus and Aeolus ' daughter Polymele ; the latter was said to have ended up betrothed to her own brother Diores.

Sisyphus was son of King Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete, and the founder and first king of Ephyra ( supposedly the original name of Corinth ).

He was a son of Aeolus and Enarete, and sired several children by his first wife, the goddess Nephele, and his other wives Ino and Themisto.

In Greek mythology, Alcyone (, Halkyónē ) was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale.

In Greek mythology, Canace () was a daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and lover of Poseidon.

Aeolus was outraged and compelled Canace to commit suicide as punishment, sending her a sword with which she was to stab herself.

Juno asking Aeolus to release the winds, by François Boucher, 1769, Kimbell Art Museum.

This Arne became the mother of the second Aeolus, by the god Poseidon.

Aeolus by Alexandre Jacovleff shows Aeolus as an embodiment of Wind himself.

When Bœotus and Æolus were born, they were raised by Metapontus ; but their stepmother ( Autolyte, wife of Metapontus ) quarrelled with their mother Arne, prompting Bœotus and Aeolus to kill Autolyte and flee from Icaria.

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

It is difficult to differentiate this Aeolus from the second Aeolus, as their identities seem to have been merged by many ancient writers.

Aeolus and Juno ( mythology ) | Juno by Lucio Massari

In the Aeneid by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas.

Allegory of Winter by Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter with Aeolus ' Kingdom of the Winds, 1683, Wilanów Palace.

Liparus is succeeded by Aeolus whose house, according to Homer, gave hospitality to Odysseus.

* Iphis, daughter of Peneus, mother of Salmoneus by Aeolus the son of Hellen.

The Bibliotheca mentions two different versions of Perieres ' lineage, without deciding between them: he could be a son of Cynortas, husband of Gorgophone and father of Tyndareus, Icarius, Aphareus and Leucippus, or he could be a son of Aeolus and father of only two sons by Gorgophone, Aphareus and Leucippus.