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 JEOLIDS, OR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF JEOLUS. 107 it occurs both in the Iliad and Odyssey. 1 Odysseus sees in the under-world the beautiful Tyro, daughter of Salmoneus, and wife of Kretheus, son of -Solus. .2Eolus is represented as having reigned in Thessaly: his seven sons were Kretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes and Perieres : his five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Peisidike, Calyce and Perimede. The fables of this race seem to be distinguished by a constant introduction of the god Posei- don, as well as by an unusual prevalence of haughty and pre- sumptuous attributes among the -Solid heroes, leading them to affront the gods by pretences of equality, and sometimes even by defiance. The worship of Poseidon must probably have been diffused and preeminent among a people with whom these legends originated. SECTION I. SONS OP AEOLUS. Salmoneus is not described in the Odyssey as son of JEolus, but he is so denominated both in the Hesiodic Catalogue, and by the subsequent logographers. His daughter Tyro became ena- moured of the river Enipeus, the most beautiful of all streams that traverse the earth: she frequented the banks assiduously, and there the god Poseidon found means to indulge his passion for her, assuming the character of the river god himself. The fruit of this alliance were the twin brothers, Pelias and Neleus : Tyro afterwards was given in marriage to her uncle Kretheus, another son of JEolus, by whom she had -Sson, Pheres and Amy- thaon all names of celebrity in the heroic legends. 3 The adventures of Tyro formed the subject of an affecting drama of Sophokles, now lost. Her father had married a second wife, named Sidero, whose cruel counsels induced him to punish and torture his daughter on account of her intercourse with Poseidon. She was shorn of her magnificent hair, beaten and ill-used in 1 Iliad, vi. 154. ZiavQos Again Odyss. xi. 234. "H fya.ro Safyzuv^of ufj.vfj.ovof eicyovof elvat, 4>7 6s Kfiridijoc -yvv)) efifj.evai Alohidao. Homer, Odyss. xi. 234-257 ; xv. 226.
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