(), according to nearly all traditions a son of
Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently a brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen. The Achaeans
regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that
of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus. When his uncle Aeolus in Thessaly, whence he
himself had come to Peloponnesus, died, he went thither and made himself master of Phthiotis,
which now also received from him the name of Achaia. (