The Aetolians were the people of Aetolia, which was in western Greece. Their capital city was Calydon.
Rulers in Greek Mythology[]
Aetolids[]
- Aetolus, son of Protogeneia (daughter of Deucalion and Pyrrha) and Zeus
- Calydon, son of Aetolus
- Pleuron, son of Aetolus
- Agenor, son of Pleuron, married to Epicaste, daughter of Calydon
- Thestius, son of Agenor and Epicaste, father of Althaea and Leda, father-in-law of Oeneus and Tyndareus , King of Sparta
- Porthaon, son of Agenor and Epicaste
- Oeneus, son of Porthaon, married to Althaea, father of Gorge, Deianeira (second wife of Heracles), Tydeus (father of Diomedes) and Meleager (hero of the Hunt for the Calydonian Boar)
- Agrius, son of Porthaon, deposed Oeneus and deposed by Diomedes who restored his grandfather, Oeneus
- Second reign of Oeneus
Andraemonids[]
- Andraemon, husband of Gorge and son-in-law of Oeneus and Althaea
- Thoas, son of Andraemon, who led the Aetolians in the Trojan War