Aitolus (son of Endymion)

Aitolus ( Greek  Αἰτωλός ) is in Greek mythology the son of Endymion , king of Elis .

In order to determine his successor, his father had a race between his sons Paion , Aitolus and Epeios . Epeios emerged victorious from this race.

As a result of a self-inflicted accident with a fatal outcome, Aitolus was banished from Elis. He went to Curetia and married Pronoe there . With this he had the two sons Pleuron and Kalydon .

literature

• Julius Adolf Bernhard : Aitolos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 202 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Aitolos in the Greek Myth Index (English)