Aiolia (island)

Aiolia ( Greek Αἰολία , Latin Aeolia) was a legendary floating island in Greek mythology in the far west and seat of Aiolos , the god of the winds.

The island is surrounded by cliffs and an iron wall and has the features of an island of the dead .

Already in ancient times the island was located in real geography as one of the Aeolian Islands ( Greek Αἰόλου νῆσοι ).

source

Homer Odyssey 10, 1-76

literature

Hans von Geisau: Aiolia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 179 f.
D. Page: Folktales in Homer's Odyssey 1972, pp. 73-78
R. Strömberg: The Aeolus episode and Greek wind magic In: Acta Univ. Gothoburgiensis 56 (1950), p. 71
Karl Tümpel : Aiolie . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Sp. 1032-1034.

Individual evidence

↑ Homer Odyssey 10.3f
↑ Antiochus of Syracuse FGrH 555 F 1
↑ Thucydides 3.88
↑ Pausania's description of Greece 11/10/3

[1] Homer Odyssey 10.3f

[2] Antiochus of Syracuse FGrH 555 F 1

[3] Thucydides 3.88

[4] Pausania's description of Greece 11/10/3