Aeolus (Odyssey) Aeolus' island. Aeolus refused to provide any further help, because he believed that their short and unsuccessful voyage meant that the gods did not favour them. This Aeolus was perceived by post-Homeric authors as a god, rather than as a mortal and simple Keeper of the Winds (as in the "Odyssey"). In the "Aeneid" by Virgil, Juno offers Aeolus the nymph Deiopea as a wife if he will release his winds upon the fleet of Aeneas, but Poseidon later calms the sea. Aeolus (Odyssey) In Greek mythology, Aeolus (; , "Aiolos" , Modern Greek: "quick-moving, nimble") was the keeper of
Magnes (son of Aeolus) Magnes (son of Aeolus) In Greek mythology, Magnes (Ancient Greek: Μάγνης) was the eponym and first king of Magnesia. Magnes was the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion and brother of Makednos. In Apollodorus' "Bibliotheca," Magnes was placed in the later generation of the Deucalionides, for this time he was the son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother to Aeolian progenitors: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede. He married an unnamed naiad that bore him Dictys and Polydectes. The mother and the sons later emigrated and colonized the island of Seriphos. Polydectes