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The WINDS that have been more personified are Boreas 1
and Zephyrus 1. The so called Etesian winds, which were
granted by Zeus to temper the heat
when the Dog (Canis Major) rises, were not personified. It
is said that Aeolus 2, having
entertained Odysseus, gave him a
bag in which he had bound fast the winds, but no relation
was established between these winds and the personified
WINDS described below until later times. To the
WINDS, which produce lightning and
thunderbolts, the world's creator did not allot the air that
they might hold it everywhere. For they can scarce be
prevented, though they control their blasts, each in his
separate tract, from tearing the world to pieces. The Winds
are
Argestes, Boreas 1, Eurus, Notus, and Zephyrus 1
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Argestes
Argestes, the North-west wind, is the
wind that blew carrying the ship of the
ARGONAUTS from Assyria
to the land of the
AMAZONS [Arg.2.961].
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Boreas 1
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Boreas 1 abducting
Orithyia 2
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Boreas 1, the North wind, once fell in
love with some mares that grazed in the fields of
Attica and, transforming himself into a dark-maned
stallion, covered them and twelve stallions were
born. On another occasion, when Orithyia 2,
daughter of King Erechtheus of
Athens, was playing by
the river Ilissus she was carried off by Boreas 1,
and because of this tie between Boreas 1 and the
Athenians he helped them by destroying enemy ships
many years later. Boreas 1 had courted Orythia 2 a
long time, and had begged the king to give her to
him, but as words proved to be in vain she took her
by force. Some say that Boreas 1 has serpents'
tails instead of feet.
Boreas 1 lives in
Scythia and the extreme
north, according to some, but others say he lives
in Thrace [Apd.3.15.2ff.; Cal.Del.292; Dio.5.50.1;
Hes.The.378; Hyg.Fab.14; Nonn.6.33ff., 37.157;
Ov.Met.1.64; Pin.Pyth.4.182; QS.1.168].
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Mates
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Offspring
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Notes
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Orithyia 2
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- Calais
- Zetes
- Chione 1
- Cleopatra 5
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- Calais and Zetes, who had wings,
are two
ARGONAUTS.
- Chione 1 consorted with
Poseidon.
- Cleopatra 5 had children by
Phineus 2.
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Lycurgus 8
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Butes 6
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Thracian Butes 6 Plotted against his
brother, Lycurgus 8 [above], and had to go
in exile.
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- Hecaerge
- Opis 3
- Loxo
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These three are NAIADS in the train of
Artemis. Opis 3
came from the Hyperboreans, and
Orion attempted
to rape her.
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Eurus
Eurus, the East wind, drew off to the
land of the dawn and the realms of Arabia, and
where the Persian hills flush beneath the morning
light [Nonn.6.28, 6.40; Ov.Her.11.14; Ov.Met.1.61;
Vir.Geo.1.373].
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Notus
Notus, the South wind, lives in the
southern lands, constantly wet with fog and rain
[[Hes.The.380; Hes.WD.675; Nonn.6.33ff.;
Ov.Met.1.65; QS.4.553].
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Zephyrus 1
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Zephyrus 1, the West wind, has his places
are the western shores which glow with the setting
sun [Hes.The.378;Hom.Il.16.150;Nonn.6.33ff.,
31.106, 31.111, 47.342; Ov.Fast.5.195; Ov.Met.1.63;
QS.4.569;Vir.Geo.2.331].
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Mates
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Offspring
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Notes
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Podarge
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Xanthus 1
Balius 1
Arion 1
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Podarge is one of the HARPIES.
The others are famous horses: Xanthus 1
and Balius 1 are
Achilles'
immortal horses whom
Hera endowed with
human speech. They served
Poseidon
first, and next
Peleus,
Achilles and
Neoptolemus.
Arion 1 is a horse given by
Heracles 1 to
Adrastus 1.
Adrastus 1
survived the war of the
SEVEN AGAINST
THEBES, saved by his own horse Arion
1.
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Chloris 3
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Chloris 3 is one of the
NYMPHS, the
Mother of the flowers (Flora in Rome).
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Pothos is Longing, a being of
inconstant mood, and an attendant of
Aphrodite.
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Pothos
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Zephyrus 1 and Chloris 3
(Flora)
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