1.Aeolus is the name of a few different characters in Greek mythology, but the one most commonly associated with the name is the god of winds.
2.He plays a key role in Homer's Odyssey, in which he's also known as the keeper of the winds. This Aeolus, from the story, was originally human, but in later classical writings he was treated as only a god.
3.The god of wind was the son of Hippotes, who was mortal. Aeolus himself was king of the island of Aeolia and befriended Odysseus when his crew was stranded on the island.
4.Aeolus is also the name of a half-human son of Poseidon, the Olympian god of the sea, and the name of another human who may have been the ancestor of the other two. The god-of-wind and son-of-Poseidon Aeolus's are often confused by writers.
5.The third Aeolus, the son of Helen and a nymph, Orseis, married Enarete and lived in another area called Aeolia, which later became Thessaly.
6.This Aeolus had a daughter named Arne, who later gave birth to the Aeolus who was the son of Poseidon. The son of Poseidon, when not conflated with the god of wind, is sometimes treated as a grandfather of Aeolus, the god of wind, and also as the founder of Lipara in the Lipari Islands. It was extremely confusing to Greek writers and historians, too.
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