Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Aeolus.
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Aeolus (son of Hellen)
Eponymous ancestor of the Aeolians — son of Hellen and Orseis, brother of Dorus and Xuthus — not the wind-keeper of the Odyssey (Hippotades).
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Hellen
Aeolus' father in the stemma of the Hellenes — the hinge from which Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians take their tribal names.
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Aeolians
The Greek dialect-tribe named for this Aeolus — Thessalian and Asiatic Aeolis as his ethnographic shadow.
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Bibliotheca (Aeolus and his children)
Apollodorus
Apollodorus' handbook lists Aeolus' sons and daughters by Enarete — the genealogical trunk of the Aeolid houses (Cretheus, Athamas, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, and the rest).