Aeolids 1 (Thessaly & Messenia)

The Aeolids, or the descendants of Aeolus, ruled many different kingdoms throughout Greece. Aeolus, the king of Phthia in Thessaly, had many children. Some of his sons founded their own kingdoms, while others gained their own kingdoms through marriage to the daughter of a king.

Since the Aeolids were so widely dispersed, I have decided to display them in separate family trees for each important line, depending on the geographic location of their kingdoms.

Since Aeolus was the son of Hellen and grandson of Deucalion, the survivor of the Deluge (Flood), the first family tree displays all the children of Deucalion, Hellen and Aeolus.

All descendants of Deucalion, including the Aeolids, were known as the Deucalionids. His descendants became the eponym of many races, as can be seen in the table below.

Eponym	Name	Father
Hellenes	Hellen	Deucalion (with Pyrrha)
Aeolians	Aeolus	Hellen (with Orseïs)
Dorians	Dorus	Hellen (with Orseïs)
Greeks	Graecus	Zeus (and Pandora II)
Ionians	Ion	Apollo or Xuthus (with Creusa)
Achaeans	Achaeüs	Xuthus (with Creusa)
Macedonians	Macedon	Zeus (with Thyia)
Thessalians	Thessalus	Jason (with Medea) or Acastus

Below are the family trees of mainly the kingdoms in Thessaly, and some in Messenia. However, there were many kingdoms in Thessaly ruled by the Aeolids, such as that of Phthia, Iolcus, Pheres and Phylace.

• Descendants of Deucalion (Deucalionids)

• Houses of Thessaly and Messenia (Aeolids)

There are many genealogies of the Aeolids, found on different pages on Timeless Myths.

• House of Corinth (Sisyphus' line), see Aeolids 2

• House of Orchomenus (Athamas' line), see Aeolids 2

• House of Argos (descendants of Melamphus), see House of Argos (Proëtids)

• House of Messenia (Perieres' line), see House of Sparta

• House of Elis

• House of Calydon

Descendants of Deucalion (Deucalionids)

I have not shown the descendants of the Aeolids in great detail here, except for the descendants of Canace. Canace was the daughter of Aeolus.

Houses of Thessaly and Messenia (Aeolids)

This family tree shows the complete family tree of those who ruled in Iolcus from Thessaly and Pylos in Messenia; both lines were descendants of Tyro, granddaughter of Aeolus. This genealogy also shows the descendants of Cretheus, Salmoneus and Deïon, the three sons of Aeolus. Because of lack of space, the line of Deïon is not complete. For example, Cephalus, Deïon's son, was the ancestor of Odysseus.

It should be noted that Jason had two sons by Hypsipyle, queen of Lemnos.