Aeolus
Also known as: Acolus · Family: Gods · Role: summoner of the winds · First appears: Book III · Part 5
In Book III, Zeus sent Hermes to ask Aeolus to summon winds for Achilles’ funeral pyre. Aeolus summoned the North and West winds “in haste.”
In Book XIV, at Aeolia, Iris told Aeolus Athena’s purpose toward the homeward-bound Achaeans, and he released the winds to overwhelm the sea. He was the son of Hippotas and lived with his wife and twelve sons.
Relationship record
Life events
- Zeus sent Hermes to ask Aeolus to summon winds for Achilles' funeral pyre.(Book III · Part 5)
- Aeolus summoned the North and West winds.(Book III · Part 5)
- “With speed he went, and Aeolus Refused not: the tempestuous North in haste He summoned, and the wild blast of the West;”
- Iris delivered Athena’s purpose, and Aeolus released the winds to overwhelm the sea.(Book XIV · Part 4 · 📍 Aeolia)
- With: Iris
- “And she told to him Athena's purpose toward the homeward-bound Achaeans. He denied her not, but passed Forth of his halls, and in resistless hands Upswung his trident, smiting the mountain-side Within whose chasm-cell the wild winds dwelt”
Book III · Part 5
- with Hermes (Hermes is sent to summon the winds through Aeolus.) “He sent to Aeolus Hermes, bidding him Summon the sacred might of his swift winds,”
Book XIV · Part 4
- with Iris (interaction) “Then sped she Iris unto Acolus, From heaven far-flying over misty seas, To bid him send forth all his buffering winds”
- parent: Hippotas “Whereby the mansion stands of Aeolus Hippotas' son.”
- married with wife of Aeolus “With wife and twelve sons; and she told to him Athena's purpose toward the homeward-bound Achaeans.”
- with Athena (interaction) “And she told to him Athena's purpose toward the homeward-bound Achaeans.”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.