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In Greek mythology, Aeolus or Aiolos [1] (/ ˈ iː ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Αἴολος [ǎi̯.o.los], Greek: ⓘ) is a name shared by three mythical characters.These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which.
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.
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 ...
Odysseus on the island receiving the winds from Aeolus, painting by Isaac Moillon A view of some modern Aeolian Islands, standing on Vulcano, with Lipari in the middle, Salina at the left, Panarea at the right. Aeolia (Ancient Greek: 'Αἰολία), the island kingdom of Aeolus, the ruler of the winds, visited by Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
In Greek mythology, Hellen (/ ˈ h ɛ l ɪ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην, romanized: Hellēn) is the eponymous progenitor of the Hellenes. He is the son of Deucalion (or Zeus) and Pyrrha, and the father of three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, by whom he is the ancestor of the Greek peoples.
Each of Hellen's sons founded a primary tribe of Greece: Aeolus the Aeolians, Dorus the Dorians [2] and Xuthus the Achaeans (from Xuthus's son Achaeus) and Ionians (from Xuthus's adopted son Ion, in truth a son of the god Apollo), aside from his sister Pandora's sons with Zeus.
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]
Aloeus (/ ə ˈ l oʊ j uː s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλωεύς probably derived from ἀλοάω aloaō "to thresh, to tread" as well as "to crush, to smash") can indicate one of the two characters in Greek mythology: Aloeus or Haloeus, a Thessalian prince as the son of Poseidon and princess Canace, daughter of King Aeolus and Enarete.