Character · Individual

Aeolus

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Canonical name: Aeolus
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

son of Hippotas

Descriptive reference · Remembered

Location presence

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Aeolus’s house2 observations

·Remembered

Aeolus feasted and slept with his household in his house.

See evidence text

“Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as it were) upon the sea, {83} iron bound with a wall that girds it. Now, Aeolus has six daughters and six lusty sons, so he made the sons marry the daughters, and they all live with their dear father and mother, feasting and enjoying every conceivable kind of luxury. All day long the atmosphere of the house is loaded with the savour of roasting meats till it groans again, yard and all; but by night they sleep on their well made bedsteads, each with his own wife between the blankets. These were the people among whom we had now come. ”

·Remembered

Aeolus was feasting in his house.

See evidence text

“‘When we reached it we went ashore to take in water, and dined hard by the ships. Immediately after dinner I took a herald and one of my men and went straight to the house of Aeolus, where I found him feasting with his wife and family; so we sat down as suppliants on the threshold. They were astounded when they saw us and said, ‘Ulysses, what brings you here? What god has been ill-treating you? We took great pains to further you on your way home to Ithaca, or wherever it was that you wanted to go to.’ ”

Claims

·Remembered

Aeolus, son of Hippotas and dear to the immortal gods, has six daughters and six lusty sons.

See evidence text

“Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods. It is an island that floats (as it were) upon the sea, {83} iron bound with a wall that girds it. Now, Aeolus has six daughters and six lusty sons”

·Remembered

Aeolus entertains Ulysses for a month, gives him an ox-hide wind-sack, and can stir or still each wind at pleasure.

See evidence text

“Aeolus entertained me for a whole month asking me questions all the time about Troy, the Argive fleet, and the return of the Achaeans. I told him exactly how everything had happened, and when I said I must go, and asked him to further me on my way, he made no sort of difficulty, but set about doing so at once. Moreover, he flayed me a prime ox-hide to hold the ways of the roaring winds, which he shut up in the hide as in a sack—for Jove had made him captain over the winds, and he could stir or still each one of them according to his own pleasure”

·Remembered

Aeolus feasts with his wife and family and is astounded to see Ulysses return after being carefully sent homeward.

See evidence text

“I found him feasting with his wife and family; so we sat down as suppliants on the threshold. They were astounded when they saw us and said, ‘Ulysses, what brings you here? What god has been ill-treating you? We took great pains to further you on your way home to Ithaca, or wherever it was that you wanted to go to.”

·Reported

Aeolus calls Ulysses the vilest of mankind and heaven-hated, and refuses to help him further.

See evidence text

“Vilest of mankind, get you gone at once out of the island; him whom heaven hates will I in no wise help. Be off, for you come here as one abhorred of heaven.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Remembered

“Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to the immortal gods”

·Remembered

“he then went on to Aeolus, who received him hospitably and furthered him on his way”