Aeolus (redirected from Æolos)

Aeolus (ē`ələs), in Greek mythology.

1 The wind god. He lived on the island of Aeolia, where he kept the winds in a cave.

2 Son of Hellen and ancestor of the Aeolian branch of the Hellenic race.

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Aeolus

Greek god of the winds. In the Odyssey Homer represents Aeolus as the mortal ruler of the floating island of Aeolia. He gives Odysseus a favourable wind for his voyage and a bag in which the unfavourable winds are confined, but Odysseus's careless companions open the bag, releasing the winds and driving their ship back to shore. Later writers depicted Aeolus as a minor god rather than a human being. The Aeolian harp is named for him.

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Aeolus

god of the winds. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 9]

See : Air

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Aeolus

steward of winds; gives bag of winds to Odysseus. [Gk. Myth: Kravitz, 10; Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]

See : Wind

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(language)

Aeolus - A concurrent language with atomic transactions. ["Rationale for the Design of Aeolus", C. Wilkes et al, Proc IEEE 1986 Intl Conf Comp Lang, IEEE 1986, pp.107-122].