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    Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer)

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    [3]  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.

    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. Graikos, p. 239; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Graikos; 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).

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    Cross references from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    7, 95, 1 [BOOK VII]: Aiolos de basileuôn tôn peri tên Thessalian topôn, tous enoikountas Aioleis prosêgoreuse

    Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
    myrmidon [Myrmĭdon]

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    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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