Polymele lived with her family on the island of Aeolia, which beheld the wandering hero Odysseus arrive after a long war with Troy.
According to the Odyssey, Odysseus and his remaining crew arrived at the idyllic island of Aeolia, where Polymele and her family lived happily.
[1] They hosted them for a month, during which time Odysseus told them all about his adventures at Troy, where he and many other Greek kings spent ten years fighting the Trojans in order to get the queen of Sparta Helen back.
[3] According to Homer, Aeolus had twelve children equally divided between males and females, and had wed each of his six sons to one of his six daughters.
[4] According to Parthenius of Nicaea however, during his stay at Aeolia (which he calls Meligunis) Polymele fell in love with Odysseus, and slept with him in secret.