Aeolus
mythological figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Aeolus son of Hippotas · royal Aeolus · sons of Aeolus
in the texts
Odyssey
Keeper of the winds who hosts Odysseus and gives him a bag containing the contrary winds.
Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods.
Immediately after dinner I took a herald and one of my men and went straight to the house of Aeolus, where I found him feasting with his wife and family;
"Aeolus entertained me for a whole month asking me questions all the time about Troy, the Argive fleet, and the return [ nostos] of the Achaeans.
Orations
Mythical eponymous ancestor of the Aeolians
but the very rulers of men, men engaged in public life and farming, as it may happen, and simply living — as Cyrus ruled the Persians, and Deioces the Medes, and Hellen those named after him, and Aeolus the Aeolians, and Dorus the Dorians, and Numa the Romans, and Dardanus the Phrygians.
Let Tellus look upon his children, and Cydippe, and Aeolus, and any other father who was fortunate;
Ion
Father of Xuthus, himself descended from Zeus.
Xuthus, son of Aeolus, sprung from Zeus.
or if this had displeased thee, he ought to have sought a daughter of Aeolus in marriage.
How had the sons of Aeolus any share in the realm of Pallas?
Aeneid
God-king of the winds, subordinate to Jove, who releases the storm at Juno's request.
Aeolia named, where royal Aeolus in a high-vaulted cavern keeps control o'er warring winds and loud concourse of storms.
“Thou in whose hands the Father of all gods and Sovereign of mankind confides the power to calm the waters or with winds upturn, great Aeolus!
Replying thus, he smote with spear reversed the hollow mountain's wall;
Stromata
Mythological figure taught by Hippo who later hosts Odysseus after the fall of Troy.
and Hippo, the daughter of the Centaur, dwelling with Aeolus, taught him natural philosophy, the science of her fathers.
Busiris
The legendary figure said to have restored to their homelands strangers cast upon his shores, invoked as a contrast to the alleged cruelty of Busiris.
But Aeolus restored to their native lands strangers who were cast on his shores, whereas Busiris, if we are to give credence to your account, sacrificed and ate them!