Thursday, June 4, 2015

The Son of Poseidon

  • The second Aeolus
  • Son of Poseidon and Arne (daughter of (the first) Aeolus)
  • The twin brother of Boeotus
  • Arne told her father that she had a child with Poseidon
  • He did not believe her
  • Gave her to Metapontus, King of Icaria (who already had a wife, Autolyte (who Aeolus and Boeotus then killed))
  • Boeotus and Arne fleed to southern Thessaly and founded Boeotia
  • Aeolus fleed to a group of islands around the Tyrrhenian Sea
  • He named them Aeolian islands
  • Had six sons and daughters
  • Were all very happy until it was found out that his son, Marcareus and his daughter, Canace were having a child (together)
  • Aeolus expels Marcareus 
  • Canace commits suicide of shame
  • Some say that Aeolus fed the child to the dogs
  • Others say that the child, a daughter named Amphrissa, was rescued and later loved by Apollo

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