# Aeolus — Discourses character guide

> Aeolus in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

God of the winds, used in Homeric examples.

## In the story

### [Of the Things Which Are in Our Power, and Not in Our Power](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power)

Mentioned as the manager of the winds, illustrating that external events are not in our power.

## Links

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