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Boreas
Sign in to saveBoreas (, , ; ; also ) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter. 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 god Aquilo or Septentrio. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man or sometimes as a young man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak. Boreas's most known myth is his abduction of the Athenian princess Oreithyia.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.image
- WindGod2.JPG
- Deity.caption
- Greco-Buddhist fragment of the god Boreas with billowing cloak (velificatio) overhead. Hadda, Afghanistan.
- Deity.god_of
- God of the north wind, storms, and winter
- Deity.member_of
- the Anemoi
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Aquilo
- Deity.name
- Boreas
- Deity.symbol
- Conch shell
- Deity.abode
- Sky, Mount Olympus
- Deity.consort
- Oreithyia
- Deity.children
- Boreads, Chione, Cleopatra, Butes, Haemus, Upis, Cyparissia, twelve colts
- Deity.parents
- Astraeus and Eos
- Deity.siblings
- Winds (Eurus, Notus and Zephyrus), Eosphorus, the Stars, Memnon, Emathion, Astraea
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Description
- Mythology
- Oreithyia
- Other love affairs
- Other traditions
- Aquilo (Septentrio)
- Outside Greco-Roman culture
- Genealogy
- Gallery
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Boreas (, , ; ; also ) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter. 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 god Aquilo or Septentrio. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man or sometimes as a young man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak. Boreas's most known myth is his abduction of the Athenian princess Oreithyia.
== Description == left|thumb|Boreas' rape of Oreithyia, Apulian red-figure oenochoe, 360 BC, Louvre.
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