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Hellen had Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus1 by a nymph
Orseis. Those who were called Greeks he named Hellenes after himself,2 and divided the country among his sons. Xuthus received Peloponnese and begat Achaeus and Ion by Creusa, daughter
of Erechtheus, and from Achaeus and Ion the Achaeans and Ionians derive their names. Dorus
received the country over against Peloponnese and
called the settlers Dorians after himself.3 Aeolus reigned
over the regions about Thessaly and named the
inhabitants Aeolians.4 He married Enarete, daughter of
Deimachus, and begat seven sons, Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Magnes,
Perieres, and five daughters, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce, Perimede.5
Perimede had Hippodamas and Orestes by Achelous; and Pisidice had Antiphus and Actor by
Myrmidon.
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1 As to Hellen and his sons, see Strab. 8.7.1; Paus. 7.12; Conon 27. According to the Scholiast on Hom. Il. i.2, Xuthus was a son of Aeolus.
2 According to the Parian Chronicle, the change of the national name from Greeks （Graikoi） to Hellenes took place in 1521 B.C. See Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, ed. C. Müller, i.542ff. Compare Aristot. Met. 1.352; Etymologicum Magnum, s.v. Γραικός, p. 239; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Γραικός; Frazer on Paus. 3.20.6; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, ii.160.
3 As to the early seats of the Dorians, see Hdt. 1.56.
4 As to the Aeolians of Thessaly, compare Paus. 10.8.4; Diod. 4.67.2.
5 As to Aeolus, his descendants, and their settlements, see Diod. 4.67.2-7; Scholiast on Pind. P. 4.107(190).
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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