Aeolians

Aeolians Aeolians, descended from Aeolus

• Apollod. 1.7.3
• in Troad: Paus. 6.4.9
• inhabit Ilium: Paus. 1.35.4, Paus. 8.12.9
• their cities twelve in number: Paus. 7.5.1
• found Elis: Apollod. 1.7.5
• their conquest by Croesus: Hdt. 1.6, Hdt. 1.26
• resistance to Cyrus: Hdt. 1.141, Hdt. 1.152
• their settlements in Asia: Hdt. 1.149-152
• in the armies of Harpagus: Hdt. 1.171
• part of a Persian province: Hdt. 3.90
• in Darius' Scythian expedition: Hdt. 4.89, Hdt. 4.138
• reconquest by Persians: Hdt. 5.122
• in Ionian revolt: Hdt. 6.8, Hdt. 6.28
• part of Xerxes' fleet: Hdt. 7.95
• Sestus an Aeolian town: Hdt. 9.115
• name applied to Boeotians while they inhabited Thessaly: Paus. 10.8.4
• Thessaly originally Aeolian (often mentioned with Ionians, to denote Greek colonists in Asia): Hdt. 7.176
• an Aeolian of Lesbos: Paus. 10.24.1