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According to the Odyssey, Odysseus and his remaining crew arrived at the idyllic island of Aeolia, where Polymele and her family lived happily. [1] They hosted them for a month, during which time Odysseus told them all about his adventures at Troy, where he and many other Greek kings spent ten years fighting the Trojans in order to get the queen of Sparta Helen back. [2]
Polymele, wife of Thestor and mother of Calchas [14] and possibly also of Leucippe and Theonoe. [15] Polymele, daughter of Phylas and wife of Echecles. She was loved by Hermes, who spotted her while she was performing a ritual dance in honor of Artemis, and had by him a son, Eudoros. [16] Polymele, daughter of Aeolus.
Aeolides (Ancient Greek: Αἰολίδης) is a patronymic given to sons and descendants of Aeolus. The feminine form Aeolis (Αἰολίς) is given to the daughters and the female descendants of Aeolus.
Aeolus' extended family, via both sons and daughters, is notable for a concentration of fantastical narratives and folk elements of a sort largely absent from the Homeric poems, beginning with the doomed, hubristic love of Ceyx and Alcyone, who called one another "Zeus" and "Hera" and were turned into the kingfisher and halcyon as punishment ...
The tragic playwright Euripides made Melanippe a daughter of Aeolus and Hippe (or Hippo), daughter of the Centaur Cheiron. [12] According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus , the Macareus who had a tragic love affair with his sister Canace, was the son of "Aeolus son of Hellen". [ 13 ]
Patroclus was the son of Menoetius (hence called Menoetiades Μενοιτιάδης, meaning "son of Menoetius") [7] by either Philomela [8] [9] or Polymele, Sthenele, [10] Periopis, [11] or lastly Damocrateia. [12] His only sibling was Myrto, mother of Eucleia by Heracles. [13] Homer also references Menoetius as the individual who gave ...
Polymele, a daughter of Peleus, was one of the possible mothers of Patroclus by Menoetius. [6] Peleus and his brother Telamon were friends of Jason and both were counted as Argonauts. [7] Though there were no further kings in Aegina, the kings of Epirus claimed descent from Peleus in the historic period. [8]
Polypheme, daughter of Autolycus and the possible mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus. [1] She was also called Polymele [ 2 ] or Polymede ; [ 3 ] otherwise the mother of the hero was either (1) Alcimede , daughter of Phylacus ; [ 4 ] (2) Amphinome ; [ 5 ] (3) Rhoeo , daughter of Staphylus ; [ 6 ] (4) Theognete , daughter of Laodicus ; [ 7 ...