Aeolus (son of Hellen)
In
Family
Aeolus was one of the central figures in the myths that were invented to explain the origins of the Greek people. He was the grandson of
From Hellen came the eponyms of the four major tribes of the Greek people. According to the Hesiodic
The surviving Catalogue fragments do not contain the name of Aeolus' mother, but according to a scholion on
According to
Other sources give other children by other mothers. The tragic playwright Euripides made Melanippe a daughter of Aeolus and Hippe (or Hippo), daughter of the
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Mythology
Apart from being the progenitor of many important descendants, Aeolus himself was of little mythological note.
The Romans Ovid, and Hyginus, tell of the tragic love affair between Aeolus' son Macareus and his daughter Canace.[74] According to Hyginus, after the incest Macareus killed himself, and Aeolus killed Canace. While, according to Ovid, Aeolus threw out Canace's new born baby as "prey to dogs and hungry birds", and gave Canace a sword and commanded her to kill herself with it.[75]
This Aeolus was sometimes confused (or identified) with the
Notes
- ^ According to Kerényi, p. 206, the name means both "the mobile" and "the many coloured", while Rose, s.v. Aeolus 1 associates the name, "perhaps by derivation", with "the changeable".
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Aeolus; Tripp, s.v. Aeolus 1; H. J. Rose, s.v. Aeolus 2; Hard 2004, pp. 401, 410–411, 420; Smith, s.v. Aeolus 1; Parada, s.v. Aeolus 1.
- ^ Hard 2004, p. 401; Gantz, pp. 164–167; Apollodorus, 1.7.2. Compare Hesiod frr. 3, 5 Most (Most, pp. 44–47).
- ^ Hard 2004, pp. 401, 404–405; Gantz, p. 167; Hesiod frr. 9, 10.20–23 Most (Most, pp. 48, 49, 52, 53); Hesiod fr. 4 Evelyn-White (Evelyn-White, pp. 156, 157)]; Apollodorus, 1.7.3. Ion is probably the missing name of the second child of Xuthus given in Hesiod fr 10a.23, see Gantz, p. 167; Most p. 53.
- ^ FGrHist 4 F125 = Hellanicus fr. 125 Fowler (Fowler 2000, pp. 200–1)]. For a discussion of Hellanicus fr. 125, see Fowler 2013, pp. 489–493.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Apollodorus, 1.7.3.
- ^ West, p. 57.
- ^ Hard 2004, p. 401; Grimal, s.v. Aeolus; Apollodorus, 1.7.3. For a comprehensive discussion of the descendants of Aeolus see Hard, pp. 409–436, along with genealogical tables pp. 703–707; Gantz, pp. 167–183.
- ^ Gantz, pp. 167–169; Hesiod frr. 10, 12 Most (Most, pp. 52, 53, 58–61).
- ^ Gantz, pp. 167, 182; Hesiod fr. 7 Most (Most, pp. 48, 49). Gantz, p 182, discusses the evidence for "Minyas" as the name of the seventh son.
- ^ Hard 2004, pp. 409–410; Gantz, pp. 168, 734; Euripides, Melanippe Wise test. i, fr. 481 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573, 578, 579).
- Fabulae 238, 242. Euripides in his lost play Aeolus apparently made Macareus the youngest son of "Aeolus, who had mastery of the winds from the gods and lived on the islands off Etruria" (Euripides, Aeolus test. ii (Collard and Cropp, pp. 16, 17)); compare with Plutarch, Parallela minora 28, which says that Macareus was the youngest son of "Aeolus, king of the Etruscans", and Pausanias, 10.38.4, which says that the Locrian city of Amphissawas said to have derived its name from "Amphissa, daughter of Macar, son of Aeolus".
- ^ Frazer's note 1 to Apollodorus 1.7.3, citing Schol. on Hom. Il. 1.2; Euripides, Ion 57–63.
- ^ Hellanicus fr. 74 Fowler (Fowler 2000, p. 183; Fowler 2013, pp. 155–156; Eustathius of Thessalonica on Dionysius Periegetes 427, cited by Fowler 2013, p. 156.
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1093–2094, who also has Cretheus and Athamas as sons of Aeolus (3.360).
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.3
- ^ a b Strabo, 9.5.18.
- ^ a b Pausanias, 5.8.2.
- ^ a b Clement of Alexandria, 4 47 P (pp. 122, 123).
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 188 (citing Scholia on Iliad 2.494); Pausanias, 9.40.5. Compare with Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.3, which makes Arne the daughter of Aeolus son of Hippotes.
- Fabulae 157.
- ^ Bell, s.v. Tanagra; Pausanias, 9.20.1.
- ^ Bell, s.v. Iope (1); Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Iope.
- ^ Smith, s.v. Trigoneia: "a daughter of Aeolus, and the wife of Minyas, or according to others, the mother of Minyas by Poseidon", citing Tzetzes on Lycophron 873; Scholia on Pindar, Pythian 4.120.
- ^ Grimal, p. 531; Hard 2004, p. 702.
- ^ Hesiod fr. 5 Most (Most, pp. 46, 47) [= Hesiod fr. 4 MW = Scholiast on Homer's Odyssey 10.2].
- ^ Euripides, Melanippe Wise test. i, fr. 481 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573, 578, 579).
- ^ a b Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.1.
- De Astronomica 2.18.2.4–5(Hard 2015, p. 51).
- ^ a b Euripides, Ion 57–63.
- ^ FGrHist4 F125. For a discussion of Hellanicus fr. 125, see Fowler 2013, pp. 489–493.
- ^ Gantz, p. 734; Euripides, Melanippe Wise test. i, fr. 481 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573, 578, 579).
- ^ De Astronomica 2.18.2.1–5.
- ^ a b c d e Euripides, Melanippe Wise test. i (Collard and Cropp, pp. 572, 573).
- ^ Fabulae 65.
- ^ a b The letters following a check mark are an abbreviation of the mother's name, the absence of a name means that no mother is mentioned in the corresponding source.
- ^ Homer, Iliad 6.154.
- ^ a b c d e Hesiod fr. 10.25–27 Most (Most, pp. 52, 53) [= fr. 10a.25–27 MW = Turner papyrus fr. 1-3 col. I-II = Oxyrhynchus papyrus 2822 fr. 2 = Scholium on Pindar's Pythians 4.253c = Hesiod fr. 4 Evelyn-White (pp. 156, 157)].
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- ^ Pausanias, 10.31.10.
- ^ a b Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.360.
- ^ Pausanias, 4.2.5.
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- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 4.512–513, where Athamas is given the patronymic Aeolides, meaning the son of Aelois, see Smith, s.v. Aeliodes.
- ^ Pausanias, 7.3.6.
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- ^ Pausanias, 2.21.7, 4.2.2.
- ^ Frazer's note 1 to Apollodorus 1.7.3, citing Schol. on Hom. Il. 1.2.
- ^ Hellanicus fr. 74 Fowler (Fowler 2000, p. 183; Fowler 2013, pp. 155–156.
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica on Dionysius Periegetes 227, cited by Fowler 2013, p. 156.
- ^ Gantz, pp. 167, 182; West, pp. 64–66.
- ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 3.1093–2094.
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.3.
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- ^ a b Ovid, Epistles 11, which makes the father of Macareus and Canace the ruler of the winds.
- ^ Pausanias, 10.38.4, which mentions an "Amphissa, daughter of Macar, son of Aeolus".
- ^ Gantz, p. 167; Hesiod fr. 10.28 Most.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.681, where Deion's son Cephalus is given the patronymic Aeolides, meaning (in this case) the grandson of Aelois, see Smith, s.v. Aeliodes.
- ^ Pausanias, 6.21.11.
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 188, citing Scholia on Iliad 2.494.
- ^ Pausanias, 9.40.5.
- Oxyrhynchus papyrus2483 fr. 1 col. II].
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.415–416, 444–445, 457–458, 11.745–748.
- Oxyrhynchus papyrus2483 fr. 1 col. II].
- Fabulae 238.
- Fabulae 157.
- Oxyrhynchus papyrus2483 fr. 1 col. II].
- Oxyrhynchus papyrus2483 fr. 1 col. II].
- ^ Hesiod fr. 10.31–34 Most (Most, pp. 52, 53) [= fr. 10a.31–34 MW = Turner papyrus fr. 1-3 col. I-II].
- ^ Pausanias, 9.20.1.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Iope.
- ^ Hard 2004, p. 409, describes him as "little more than a cipher" and "an eponym and genealogical link rather than a hero of myth". And, in fact, Gantz, p. 167, describes all the early descendants of Deucalion and Pyrrha as "primarily eponymous ancestors or intermediate place-holders rather than actors in any real narratives."
- De Astronomica 2.18.2.4–5.
- ^ Euripides's lost tragedy Aeolus also told the story, see Collard and Cropp, pp.12–31; Gantz, p. 169.
- ^ Rose, s.v. Aeolus 2; Smith, s.v. Aeolus 1; Hyginus, Fabulae 238, 242; Ovid, Epistles 11, Tristia, 2.384. Compare with Plutarch, Parallela minora 28.
- ^ Hard 2004, p. 409; Gantz, pp. 167, 169; Grimal s.v. Aeolus; Tripp, s.vv. Aeolus 1, 2; Parada, s.v. Aeolus 1;
- ^ Gantz, p. 169; Euripides fr. 14 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 16, 17) [= Strabo 8.3.32]; Euripides fr. 14 (Nauck, p. 366) (not in Collard and Cropp). For a discussion of the play along with the surviving testimonies and fragments see Collar and Cropp, pp. 31.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 10.1–12.
- Fabulae 125.
- ^ Alcyone daughter of Aeolus: Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.415–416, 444–445, 457–458; Alycone called "Hippotades": Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.431; Alcyone's father Aeolus as ruler of the winds: Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.745–748; Canace and Macareus' father Aeolus as ruler of the winds: Ovid, Epistles 11.13–15.
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