Example Sentences

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You’re not planning a sea voyage to Ithaca by way of Aeolia, just driving to the next state over.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2020

Homer himself is called “son of Meles”—the stream which flowed through old Smyrna, on the border between Aeolia and Ionia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

After having tossed the unhappy hero and his men over many seas, Juno, observing their approach to Italy, hastened to Aeolia, where King Aeolus ruled over the struggling winds and tempests, chained in vast caves.

From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner

Why should I recall the fleets burned on the coast of Eryx? why the king of storms, and the raging winds roused from Aeolia, or Iris driven down the clouds?

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Now Odysseus and his men sailed on and on till they came to Aeolia, where dwells the king of the winds, and here they came nigh to good fortune.

From Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew by Peabody, Josephine Preston