Son of Zeus by Protogeneia, daughter of Deucalion; by his wife Calyce, one of the daughters of Aeolus, he fathered Endymion, through whom the Elean line descends.1
Among the descendants of the flood survivors, Apollodorus counts Protogeneia, daughter of Deucalion, who became by Zeus the mother of Aethlius. Hyginus likewise lists Aethlius among the sons of Zeus, born of Protogenia, daughter of Deucalion, rooting him in the stock of those who repeopled the earth.2
Pausanias makes him the first to rule in the land the Eleans later held, the son of Zeus and Protogeneia, daughter of Deucalion, and the father of Endymion. Yet he records the doubt that keeps a place open for him in the house of Aeolus: some say that Aethlius too was a son of Aeolus, though he is supposed to be a son of Zeus.3
He married Calyce, one of the five daughters of Aeolus, and Apollodorus says that Calyce and Aethlius had a son, Endymion, who led the Aeolians from Thessaly and founded Elis — the surpassingly beautiful sleeper whom the Moon came to love. Through that son the reign of Aethlius opens the whole Elean line.4
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