Æolus

Also known as: Aeolus · Family: Greek mythology · Role: father of Aethlius · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 21

Book 2 records Perieres as a son of Æolus, and Book 4 identifies Cretheus as Æolus’s son. In Book 5, Aethlius is named as “the son of Æolus surnamed Zeus.”

In Book 6, Eioneus is described as the son of Magnes and grandson of Æolus; at Pisa, Pisus, son of Perieres, is said to have founded the town and to be Æolus’s grandson. Later accounts name Tanagra and Arne as Æolus’s daughters, and Sisyphus as his son. Book 10 also identifies Macar as Æolus’s son, and Amphissa as Macar’s daughter.

Relationship record

Book 2 · Chapter 21

• child: Perieres “Perieres the son of Æolus”

Book 4 · Chapter 2

• child: Cretheus “his cousin Neleus, the son of Cretheus, the son of Æolus”
• child: Perieres “they introduced as King Perieres the son of Æolus”

Book 5 · Chapter 8

• child: Aethlius “Aethlius was the son of Æolus surnamed Zeus”

Book 6 · Chapter 21

• with Eioneus (interaction) “and Eioneus, the son of Magnes and grandson of Æolus”
• child: Magnes “Eioneus, the son of Magnes and grandson of Æolus”

Book 6 · Chapter 22

• with Pisus (grandparent-grandchild) “The founder of the town was they say Pisus, the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus.”
• child: Perieres “The founder of the town was they say Pisus, the son of Perieres and grandson of Æolus.”

Book 9 · Chapter 20

• child: Tanagra “Tanagra the daughter of Æolus”

Book 9 · Chapter 40

• child: Arne “they say Arne was the daughter of Æolus”

Book 10 · Chapter 31

• child: Sisyphus “Sisyphus the son of Æolus is laboriously rolling a stone.”

Book 10 · Chapter 38

• child: Macar “Amphissa, (the daughter of Macar the son of Æolus), who was beloved by Apollo”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.