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The third Aeolus was a son of Hippotes who is mentioned in the Odyssey and the Aeneid as the ruler of the winds. [4] All three men named Aeolus appear to be connected genealogically, although the precise relationship, especially regarding the second and third Aeolus, is often ambiguous as their identities seem to have been merged by many ...
Aeolus. In Greek mythology, Aeolus (Ancient Greek: Αἴολος, Aiolos), [1] the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters. To ensure safe passage home for Odysseus and his men, Aeolus gave ...
In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos [2] (/ ˈ iː ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Αἴολος [ǎi̯.o.los], Greek: ⓘ) was the son of Hellen, the ruler of Aeolia (later called Thessaly), and the eponym of the Aeolians, one of the four main tribes of the Greeks.
Apollodorus, similarly to the Catalogue and other sources, calls him the father of Dorus, Xuthus and Aeolus; however, he specifies the nymph Orseis (rather than Othreis) as their mother. [21] According to the Byzantine chronicler John Malalas (c. 491 – 578), Hellen was the son of "Picus Zeus", [22] and the father (rather than son) of ...
The name derives from Aeolus, the mythical ancestor of the Aeolians and son of Hellen, himself the mythical patriarch of the Greek nation. The name Aeolian (lit. ' of the wind ') derives from the Greek name Aeolus, aiolos (αίολος) literally meaning "changeable", "quickly moving". [7]
The Jesus bloodline refers to the proposition that a lineal sequence of the historical Jesus has persisted, possibly to the present time. Although absent from the Gospels or historical records, the concept of Jesus having descendants has gained a presence in the public imagination, as seen with Dan Brown's 2003 best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 movie adaptation of the same name ...
Aethlius was the son of Zeus and Protogeneia (daughter of Deucalion), [3] and was married to Calyce by whom he fathered Endymion. [4] According to some accounts, Endymion was himself a son of Zeus and first king of Elis. [5] Other traditions again made Aethlius a son of Aeolus, who was called by the name of Zeus. [6]
The third people [12] to cross over to the island, we are told, were Dorians, under the leadership of Tectamus the son of Dorus; and the account states that the larger number of these Dorians was gathered from the regions about Olympus, but that a part of them consisted of Achaeans from Laconia, since Dorus had fixed the base of his expedition ...