Aeolus (son of Hellen)

According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Aeolus was the father of seven sons: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, Perieres, and five daughters: Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede.

He was the grandson of Deucalion the founder of the Deucalionids, one of the two most important families in Greek mythology (the other being the Inachids, the descendants of Inachus who originated in Argos).

Deucalion was the son of Prometheus, and the survivor of a great primordial flood, that covered much, if not all, of Greece (and the rest of the world, in late accounts).

[5] The surviving Catalogue fragments do not contain the name of Aeolus' mother, but according to a scholion on Plato's Symposium citing Hellanicus (fl.

Apollodorus lists the sons as Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes, and Perieres, and the daughters as Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, and Perimede.

[9] The Hesiodic Catalogue also listed seven sons and five daughters, however only the names Cretheus, Athamas, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, Perieres, Pisidice, Alcyone, and Perimede are preserved.

[14] Others who were sometimes said to have had Aeolus as a father include: Macedon,[15] Minyas,[16] Mimas,[17] Cercaphus,[18] Aethlius,[19] Ceyx,[20] Arne,[21] Antiope,[22] Tanagra,[23] Iope[24] and Tritogeneia.

According to these sources, after becoming pregnant with Aeolus' child, Hippe fled into the mountains to escape the discovery of her pregnancy by her father Cheiron.