Aeolides
Αἰολίδης
(Αἰολίδης), a patronymic given to the sons of Acolus, as Athamas (Ov. Met. 4.511), Magnes (Paus. 6.21.7), Macareus (Ov. Met. 9.506). Misenus (Verg. A. 6.164), Sisyphus (Ov. Met. 13.26; Hom. Il. 6.154), Cretheus (Hom. Od. 11.237), locastus (Tzetz. ad Lycophr. 732); and to his grandsons, as Cephalus (Ov. Met. 6.621), Odysseus (Verg. A. 6.529), and Phryxus. (V. Fl. 1.286.) Acolis is the patronymic of the female descendants of Aeolus, and is given to his daughters Canace and Alcyone. (Ov. Met. 11.573; Heroid. 11.5.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.