Aeolian Islands
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Didyme · Hiera · Lipara · Strongyle · islands of Aeolus · the Aeolian island
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1 expressionAeolian island1 mention
Odyssey (Greek)
Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods.
in the texts
Odyssey
The floating island home of Aeolus.
Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods.
but I bore it, covered myself up, and lay down in the ship, while the men lamented bitterly as the fierce winds bore our fleet back to the Aeolian island.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The volcanic island group off Sicily, allied to Syracuse, that the Athenians and Rhegians raid without success.
Now the people in those parts think that in Hiera Vulcan works as a smith;
During the same winter the Athenians in Sicily and the Rhegians made an expedition with thirty ships against the islands of Aeolus;
They are occupied by the Liparaean colony from Cnidos, who live in one of the which is of no great extent, called Lipara, and proceed that to cultivate the rest, namely, Didyme, Strongyle, and Hiera.