Wife of Aeolus son of Hellen and daughter of Deimachus; by Aeolus she bore the twelve Aeolids, seven sons and five daughters.1
Apollodorus names her in a single clause as he parcels Hellas among the sons of Hellen. Where Xuthus and Dorus take their portions, Aeolus reigns over the regions about Thessaly; and there, the account says, he married Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. Her father is named in no other passage, and Enarete herself is attested in no other ancient hand — she exists in the record as the mother of a house rather than as a figure of her own deeds.2
What the one line grants her is sheer fertility of consequence. By Aeolus she bore the twelve Aeolids: seven sons — Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes and Perieres — and five daughters — Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede. Apollodorus' clause carries them no further than their names; through these children, in his later books and in other hands, the wider stemma of the Aeolid house unfolds.3
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the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story