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
HMS Aeolus (1801) the third ship in the Navy to be named "Aeolus". The first, also a 32-gun fifth rate (launched in 1758), was still in existence but had been reduced to harbour service in 1796 and renamed "Guernsey" in 1800 to free the name for the new ship. Then a squadron captured the French frigate "Pallas", which received the name "Aeolus". In the meantime, "Guernsey" was sold in May 1801, shortly after the third "Aeolus" had completed fitting out the previous month, at Deptford Dockyard. The second "Aeolus" was then renamed to "Pique". "Aeolus" was at first employed on convoy duties and