#just to be clear i do not believe this is the case

When Odysseus describes staying on Aeolus’s island, he uses the word φἰλει (10.14), which has been taken to mean that Aeolus hosted him in a friendly fashion. It is then followed by Odysseus saying that Aeolus “refused nothing” when he asked (τι κεῖνος ἀνήνατο, 10.18). While φίλει has both platonic and romantic/sexual connotations, parallels could be drawn between Odysseus’s arrival and reception on Aeolus’s island, and his arrival and reception on Circe’s island (wherein he enters a sexual relationship with the goddess and is then taken care of through her resources). Thus, it is not inconceivable that Odysseus had a similar relationship with Aeolus in book 10 of the Odyssey. In this essay I will