Aeolides

A patronymic given to the sons of Aeolus, such as Athamas,1 Magnes,2 Macareus,3 Misenus,4 Sisyphus,5 Cretheus,6 locastus;7 and to his grandsons, as Cephalus,8 Odysseus,9 and Phryxus.10

Acolis is the patronymic of the female descendants of Aeolus, and is given to his daughters Canace and Alcyone.11

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References

Notes

  1. Ovid. Metamorphoses iv, 511.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece vi, 21.7.
  3. Ovid. Metamorphoses ix, 506.
  4. Virgil. Aeneid vi, 164.
  5. Ovid. Metamorphoses xiii, 26; Homer. Iliad VI, 154.
  6. Homer. Odyssey xi, 237.
  7. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 732.
  8. Ovid. Metamorphoses vi, 621.
  9. Virgil. Aeneid vi, 529.
  10. C. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica i, 286.
  11. Ovid. Metamorphoses xi, 573; Heroides xi, 5.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.