Aetolus (son of Endymion)

'''Aetolus''' ({{IPAc-en|iː|ˈ|t|oʊ|l|ə|s}}; [[Ancient Greek]]: Αἰτωλός ''Aitolos'') was, in [[Greek mythology]], a son of [[Endymion (mythology)|Endymion]], great-great-grandson of [[Deucalion]], and a [[Naiad]] [[nymph]] (Neis), or [[Iphianassa]].<ref>{{Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Aetolus (1) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]] | volume = 1 | pages = 54 | place = Boston | year = 1870 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0063.html | access-date = 2007-11-06 | archive-date = 2009-03-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090315120342/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0063.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Aetolus 1.7.6]</ref>

== Family == According to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], Aetolus' mother was called [[Asterodia]], [[Chromia]], or [[Hyperippe]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.1.4 5.1.4]</ref> He was married to [[Pronoe]], by whom he had two sons, [[Pleuron (Greek mythology)|Pleuron]] and [[Calydon (son of Aetolus)|Calydon]]. His brothers were [[Paeon of Elis|Paeon]], [[Epeius]], Eurycyda,<ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], ''Narrations'' 14; [[Scholia]] on [[Pindar]], ''Olympian Ode'' 1.28</ref> and [[Naxos (mythology)|Naxos]].<ref>[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#N468.7 Naxos]''</ref> In one account, Aetolus was the son of [[Protogeneia|Protogenia]] by [[Zeus]] and the brother of [[Aethlius]],<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Aethlius 1.7.2]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 155</ref> [[Opus (mythology)|Opus]]<ref>Scholia on Pindar, ''Olympian Ode'' 9.85; Scholia on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 4.1780</ref> and possibly [[Dorus (Deucalionid)|Dorus]].<ref>[[Clementine literature|Pseudo-Clement]], ''Recognitions'' 10.21</ref> Other sources also described Aetolus as the son of [[Amphictyon]] and father of [[Physcus (mythology)|Physcius]], the father of [[Locrus]].<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. ''Physkos'' </ref> In this account, Aetolus was a king of [[Locris]] after his father Amphictyon. Then, the kingdom was passed on to Physcus and eventually Locrus who name the land after himself.<ref>[[Pseudo-Scymnus|Pseudo-Scymnos]], ''Circuit de la terre'' 587 ff.</ref>

== Mythology == Aetolus' father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon and Epeius to decide by a contest at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] as to which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of [[Ancient Elis|Elis]]. Epeius gained the victory, and occupied the throne after his father, and on his demise he was succeeded by Aetolus. During the funeral games which were celebrated in honor of [[Azan (mythology)|Azan]], he ran with his chariot over [[Apis (Greek mythology)|Apis]], the son of [[Jason]] or [[Salmoneus]], and killed him, whereupon he was expelled by the sons of Apis. The kingdom then passed to [[Eleius]], son of his sister [[Eurycyda]].<ref name=":0" /><ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.1.8 5.1.8]; [[Strabo]], 8.3.33</ref> After leaving [[Peloponnesus]], he went to the country of the [[Curetes (tribe)|Curetes]], between the [[Achelous]] and the [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]]ian gulf, where he slew [[Dorus (mythology)|Dorus]], [[Laodocus]], and [[Polypoetes]], the sons of [[Apollo]] and [[Phthia]], and gave to the country the name of [[Aetolia]].<ref name=":0">Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.7.6&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=7&highlight=Aetolus 1.7.6]</ref> This story is only a mythical account of the colonization of Aetolia.<ref>Strabo, 10.2 ff.</ref>

==Genealogical tree== {{Calydonian dynasty}}

== Notes == {{reflist}}

== References ==

* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website]. * [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] * [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] *[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] * Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. *[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

==Sources== *{{SmithDGRBM|title= Aetolus (1)}}

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