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Bibliotheca
Apollodorus
Apollodorus names the nymph Orseis as Hellen's wife and mother of Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus — the maternal stem of the Dorian, Ionian/Achaean, and Aeolian lines.
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Orseis
Thessalian naiad consort of Hellen — mythical ancestress of the primary Greek tribes through her three sons.
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Hellen
Son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, husband of Orseis — eponym of the Hellenes whose children divide the Greek ethne.
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Aeolus (son of Hellen)
Orseis' son by Hellen — eponym of the Aeolians, brother of Dorus and Xuthus in the standard stemma.