Boreas had taken a fancy to Orithyia and had initially pleaded for her favours, hoping to persuade her.

He is said to have fathered three giant Hyperborean priests of Apollo by Chione.Д«oreas was also said to have kidnapped Orithyia, an Athenian princess, from the Ilisos. The Greeks believed that his home was in Thrace, and Herodotus and Pliny both describe a northern land known as Hyperborea 'Beyond the North Wind' where people lived in complete happiness and had extraordinarily long lifespans. Pliny the Elder ( Natural History iv.35 and viii.67) thought that mares might stand with their hindquarters to the North Wind and bear foals without a stallion. These were said to be able to run across a field of grain without trampling the plants. He was said to have fathered twelve colts after taking the form of a stallion, to the mares of Erichthonius, king of Dardania. Д«oreas was closely associated with horses. Pausanias wrote that Boreas had snakes instead of feet, though in art he was usually depicted with winged human feet.Д«oreas' two sons CalaГЇs and Zetes (the Boreads) were part of the crew of the Argo as Argonauts. He was frequently shown as a winged old man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. Although he was normally taken as the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a northeast wind, equivalent to the Roman Aquilo, similar to Nor'easter winter storms. Hadda, AfghanistanД«oreas ( О’ОїПЃОО±П‚, BorГ©as also О’ОїПЃПЃбѕ¶П‚, BorrhГўs) is the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter, the continental polar air mass (cP). Greco-Buddhist fragment of the god Boreas with billowing cloak ( velificatio) overhead. Ptolomy's world map listed 12 winds: Septentrio (N), Aquilo (NNE), Vulturnus (NE), Subsolanus (E), Eurus (SE), Euroauster (SSE), Austerulnotus (S), Euronotus (SSW), Affricus (SW), Ephirus (W), Eurus (NW), Circius (NNW). These gods had different names, but were otherwise very similar to their Greek counterparts, borrowing their attributes and being frequently conflated with them. The deities equivalent to the Anemoi in Roman mythology were the Venti ( Latin, 'winds').

Of the four chief Anemoi, Boreas (Aquilo in Roman mythology) is the north wind and bringer of cold winter air, Zephyrus (Favonius in Latin) is the west wind and bringer of light spring and early-summer breezes, and Notus (Auster in Latin) is the south wind and bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn Eurus, the southeast (or according to some, the east) wind, was not associated with any of the three Greek seasons, and is the only one of these four Anemoi not mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony or in the Orphic hymns. Astraeus, the astrological deity (sometimes associated with Aeolus), and Eos/ Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, were the parents of the Anemoi, according to the Greek poet Hesiod. The Spartans were reported to sacrifice a horse to the winds on Mount Taygetus. They were also sometimes depicted as horses kept in the stables of the storm god Aeolus, who provided Odysseus with the Anemoi in the Odyssey. They were sometimes represented as gusts of wind, and at other times were personified as winged men. The Anemoi are minor gods and are subject to the god Aeolus.

Tower of the Winds in ancient Athens, part of the frieze depicting the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right)

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