Aeolus (son of Hellen)
In Greek mythology, Aeolus was the ruler of Aeolia and held to be the founder of the Aeolic branch of the Greek nation.Mythology
Aeolus was the son of Hellen and the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus, Xuthus, Xenopatra, and, in some sources, of Amphictyon. He married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. Aeolus and Enarete had many children, although the precise number and identities of these children vary from author to author in the ancient sources. Laodice, daughter of Aloeus, was also called her wife who mothered his sons, Cretheus and Salmoneus while others mentioned a certain Iphis, daughter of Peneus, as the mother of Salmoneus.
The great extent of country which this race occupied, and the desire of each part of it to trace its origin to some descendant of Aeolus, probably gave rise to the varying accounts about the number of his children. Some scholars contend that the most ancient and genuine story told of only four sons of Aeolus: Sisyphus, Athamas, Cretheus, and Salmoneus, as the representatives of the four main branches of the Aeolic race. Other sons included Deioneus, Perieres, Cercaphus, Magnes, Macar, Macedon and sometimes Xuthus, Aethlius, Ceyx, Minyas. Another son is named Mimas, who provides a link to the third Aeolus in a genealogy that seems very contrived. Calyce, Peisidice, Perimede and Alcyone were counted among the daughters of Aeolus and Enarete. In some accounts, however, Alcyone's mother was described to be Aegiale.
This Aeolus also had an illegitimate daughter named Arne, begotten on Melanippe, daughter of the Centaur Chiron. This Arne became the mother of the second Aeolus, by the god Poseidon. Tanagra, the daughter of Asopus, was sometimes given to have Aeolus as her father. Aeolus was also credited to begat Iope, wife of Cepheus and thus, mother of Andromeda.
