Aethlius

Aethlius or Aithlios (Ancient Greek: Ἀέθλιος means 'winning the prize') or Aethnos was, in Greek mythology, the first king of Elis.

Family

Aethlius was the son of Zeus and Protogeneia (daughter of Deucalion), and was married to Calyce by whom he fathered Endymion. According to some accounts, Endymion was himself a son of Zeus and first king of Elis. Other traditions again made Aethlius a son of Aeolus, who was called by the name of Zeus.

Mythology

Aethlius led Aeolians from Thessaly and founded Elis. According to Eusebius, as a means of challenging his sons, Aethlius use the concept of Olympics of the Idaean Dactyls and it was from his name that the adversaries are called athletes. After Aethlius, his sons Epeius and then Endymion, Alexinus and Oenomaus were each in charge of the sacrifices connected with the festival.

DeucalionPyrrha
~ Zeus(stones)
Hellen
(hellenes)
Thyia ~ ZeusPandora ~ ZeusProtogeneia ~ Zeusleleges
Dorus
(dorians)
XuthusAeolus
(aeolians)
Magnes
(magnetes)
Makedon
(Makedones)
Graecus
(Graecians)
Aethlius
AegimiusAchaeus
(achaeans)
Ion
(ionians)
Endymion
Dymas
(dymanes)
Pamphylus
(pamphyli)
Aetolus
(aetolians)
The genealogy of Aethlius according to Hesiod's Catalogue of Women

Notes

  1. ↑ Although Zeus copulated with all of Pyrrha's daughters, he was presumably only the father of Hellen; cf. West (1985, p. 56).

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Conon, Narrations 14
  2. ↑ Pausanias, 5.1.2
  3. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.2; Hyginus, Fabulae 155
  4. ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Aethlius (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 51, archived from the original on 2010-06-08, retrieved 2007-11-04{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.5
  6. ↑ Pausanias, 5.8.1
  7. ↑ Eusebius, Chronography 69
  8. ↑ West 1985, pp. 50–60, 173

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Aethlius (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.