Calyce stands in the genealogist's catalogue among the children of Aeolus and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus — five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede, set beside seven sons. She is a daughter of the Aeolid trunk, born into one of the broadest mortal houses in Greek myth.2Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.7.3

Calyce and Aethlius had a son, Endymion, who led Aeolians out of Thessaly and founded Elis, carrying the Aeolid stock south into the Peloponnese. Through this single union the line of Aeolus crosses into the kingship of Elis. Apollodorus adds the rival report that some make Endymion no son of Aethlius at all, but a son of Zeus.3Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.7.5

Calyce's husband Aethlius was himself begotten by Zeus upon Protogeneia, daughter of Deucalion, so that her son Endymion sprang from a marriage joining the Aeolid daughter to a child of the sky-father's own getting. The same source that gives Calyce her son traces Aethlius back to that union.4Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.7.2; 1.7.5

Of Calyce's son the tale is famous: Endymion was of surpassing beauty, and the Moon fell in love with him; when Zeus allowed him to choose what he would, he chose to sleep for ever, remaining deathless and ageless. The mother passes into legend chiefly through this son she bore — the sleeper beloved of Selene.5Pseudo-Apollodorus — Bibliotheca 1.7.5