Blowin' in the Wind

A young alumna of my school, a former Classics student and now a graduate of Carleton College in Minnesota, is spending her summer doing research in Manitoba, Canada. She is learning to use an Aeolian trap, a device which catches materials that are wind-borne. In an email she reported to me that the researcher who introduced her to the device did not know why it is called an Aeolian trap, so my former student explained the connection to the mythological Aeolus, king of the winds, who in Book 10 of the Odyssey gives Odysseus a bag of winds to take him home to Ithaka, and who also in the Aeneid is bribed by Juno, the queen of the gods, to disrupt Aeneas' voyage in Book 1 by means of a huge storm.