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Definition of Aeolia
1. Noun. An ancient coastal region of northwestern Asia Minor (including Lesbos) where the Aeolians founded several cities around 1100 BC.
Group relationships: Anatolia, Asia Minor
Terms within: Lesbos, Lesvos, Mytilene
Generic synonyms: Coast, Sea-coast, Seacoast, Seashore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeolia
Literary usage of Aeolia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life's Sunbeams and Shadows: Poems and Prose, with Appendix Including by John Cotter Pelton (1893)
"Abler by far than pen of mine The charms and beauties which are thine— Real,
ethereal, and sublime Aeolia. 'Mid tree-flecked glade and leafy bower, ..."
2. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"MYRINA, IN Aeolia. No. 1.—AlT. KAI. A. ceri. ... having affirmed that they are
mostly found in Aeolia, they are generally admitted to belong to ..."
3. Homer's Iliad: first three books and selections by Homer (1907)
"It was in the region where Aeolia abutted on Ionia that the Iliad was composed
... Finally, on the confines of Aeolia and Ionia, or on an island adjacent ..."
4. Selections from L'Hommond's Viri Romae and Cornelius Nepos by C. F. L'Homond, Cornelius Nepos, John T. Buchanan (1897)
"... imitate, envy. aeneus, -a, -um, adj. of copper, of bronze. Aeolia,-ae, f.
Aeolia, a province on the western coast of Asia Minor. Aeolia, -idis, f. ..."
5. Cornelii Nepotis Vitae: The Lives of Cornelius Nepos by Cornelius Nepos (1894)
"Aeolia, see Aeolis. Aeolis, -idis, or Aeolia, -ae, ... f., Aeolis, Aeolia, a
country of Asia Minor, north of lis, -is, m., companion of equal age, comrade, ..."
6. Wisconsin Journal of Education by Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Wisconsin Education Association Council, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction (1878)
"Aeolia," although having four syllables, is sooner pronounced than the two syllables,
... Aeolia" has four vowel-sounds to only one consonant and that a ..."
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