Aeolus (son of Hippotes)

But when almost home, Odysseus' men, thinking the bag contained treasure, opened it and they were all driven by the winds back to Aeolia.

[4] The Byzantine poet John Tzetzes (c. 1110–1180) gives the following names for Aeolus' children: the sons Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Clymenus, Xuthus and Macareus, and daughters Clymene, Callithyia, Eurygone, Lysidice, Canace and an unnamed one.

[5] According to Homer, Aeolus the son of Hippotes was the king of the floating island of Aeolia, whom Zeus had made the "keeper of the winds, both to still and to rouse whatever one he will".

[7] In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeolus keeps the winds contained in a cave on Aeolia: There closely pent in chains and bastions strong, they, scornful, make the vacant mountain roar, chafing against their bonds.

And the house, filled with the savour of feasting, resounds all about even in the outer court by day, and by night again they sleep beside their chaste wives on blankets and on corded bedsteads.

[18] In the Odyssey, Aeolus' kingdom of Aeolia was purely mythical, a floating island surrounded by "a wall of unbreakable bronze".

According to Diodorus, Aeolus was said to be: pious and just and kindly as well in his treatment of strangers; furthermore, he introduced sea-farers to the use of sails and had learned, by long observation of what the fire foretold, to predict with accuracy the local winds, this being the reason why the myth has referred to him as the "keeper of the winds"; and it was because of his very great piety that he was called a friend of the Gods.

According to Diodorus, Aeolus' mother was Melanippe, his wife was Cyanê, and his six sons were Astyochus, Xuthus, Androcles, Pheraemon, Jocastus, and Agathyrnus.