USS Aeolus (ID-3005) USS Aeolus (ID-3005) USS "Aeolus" (ID-3005), sometimes also spelled Æolus, was a United States Navy transport ship during World War I. She was formerly the North German Lloyd liner SS "Grosser Kurfürst, also spelled Großer Kurfürst", launched in 1899 that sailed regularly between Bremen and New York. At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States and, when the U.S. entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport. Originally commissioned as USS "Grosser Kurfürst", the ship was renamed "Aeolus" — after the god of wind in Greek mythology —
Melanippe (daughter of Aeolus) Melanippe (daughter of Aeolus) In Greek mythology, Melanippe (Ancient Greek: Μελανίππη, "black mare") was the daughter of Aeolus and the precedent Melanippe (or else daughter of Hippotes or of Desmontes). Also known as Arne. Mother, by Poseidon, of the twins Aeolus and Boeotus. There are various accounts of what happened to Melanippe after the birth of her sons. In one version, when her father discovered her pregnancy, he handed her over to a man from Metapontium, who was childless and adopted her sons as his own. When the boys grew up, a civil war began in Metapontium and they seized