A/N: This is not The Tales of version of Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods or Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes, but rather The Tales of version of a book I got of Greek and Roman Mythology I got in Rome Italy. The settings will be after 'The Tales of the Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus' so please read that before getting in this story. Think of this story as something to pass by until The Trials of Apollo books.
Aeolus
There are actually two people who goes by this name but the guy I was talking about is a big deal. Although these days, trust with this guy is pretty thin. He did after all ruin his chance of promotion by turning on the gods.
But that's the current time events. We're here to talk about the myth on this guy.
But before we get to him, we must cover his grandfather and namesake, the first Aeolus.
First off he was son of Hellen and Orseis. His descendants became known as the Aeolioans.
Aeolus was the king of Magnesia, in Thessaly. He married Enarette, by whom he had seven sons and five daughters. This Aeolus was sometimes identified with the Lord of the Winds, but that title was more often refer to his grandson. But one thing is clear, he played a roll in the tragic affair of his daughter Canace and Macareus.
Then you got his grandson, the actual Lord of the Winds, also called Aeolus.
This Aeolus was either son of Arne, Euripides, or Melanippe. Either Arne or Melanippe but his father was my dad Poseidon and in stories where he's son of either Arne or Melanippe, he had a twin brother Boeotus.
When it thought Melanippe was the mother, at the twin's birth, her father blinded and imprisoned her, and ordered the twins to be exposed. A cow fed them with milk until some shepherds took them in.
Now King Metapontus, being unable to have a child by his wife Theano, had threatened to divorce her. She asked the shepherd to provide her with infant which she could pass offas her own, and they gave her Aeolus and Boeotus.
Theano convinced Metapontus that they were his sons but when she herself bore twin sons, she became anxious to get rid of the strangers and she told her sons the secret of Aeolus and Boeotus' birth. The four youths fought, and with Poseidon's help, Aeolus and Boeotus killed Theano's son and fled to the shepherds who had taken them in. Poseidon then told them he was their father and that their mother was still a prisoner, whereupon they hastened to her rescue. Poseidon restored her sight, and her sons took her back to Metapontum, where they revealed Theano's crimes to King Metapontus. The king married Melanippe and the young men left to found cities aboard.
In other version where Arne might of been the mother instead of Melanippe, either sister was still impregnated by Poseidon, but was not imprisoned but instead handed over to an inhabitant of Metapontum who subsequently adopted Aeolus and Boeotus. When they grew up they seized the throne of Metapontum, slew their adoptive father's wife: either Autolyta or Siris, and fled, Boeotus to Aolis, later known as Thessaly, Aeolus to the Aeolian Islands, where he was welcomed by King Liparus, who gave him both his daughter Cyane in marriage and his throne. Aeolus and Cyane had six sons: Astyochus, Xuthus, Androcles, Pheraemon, Iocastus, and Agathyrnus.
Like his grandfather Aeolus before him, Aeolus was also identified as Lord of the Winds. He once received Odysseus on his island, and when Odysseus left he gave him an oxhide bottle containing al the winds except the one which would take him back to Ithaca. but Odysseus' companions opened the bottle while he was asleep, so the winds escaped, causing a storm, which drove the ship back to Aeolia, where Aeolus, regarding Odysseus as the victim of divine wrath drove him away.
Which ever Aeolus still around though, he still help heroes up until the second Titan war. Apparently my surrogate brother Jason Grace went there to search for a way to slay the Trojan Sea Monster. But for now, last I heard things are still dicey with the Lord of the Winds.
But that's enough of the Lord of the Winds. Now let's cover a a name that doesn't come with one, or two stories, but instead three different stories.
A/N: I got to ask this now that this chapter is done. Which Aeolus you think Riordan used in the Percy Jackson series? The Grandfather or the Grandson?
Because clearly the title 'Lord of the Winds' isn't enough to go by
