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Boreas| In Greek mythology, the god of the north wind, who carried off Oreithyia, daughter of a legendary king of Athens. Their children were Calais and Zetes, two of the Argonauts, who fought the Harpies to free Phineus, a blind soothsayer and future king of Salmydessus in Thrace. |
| Boreas was the son of the Titan Astraeus and Eos, goddess of the dawn. Under the care of the god Aeolus, keeper of the winds, he dwelt in a cave on Mount Haemus in Thrace with his brothers Hesperus, the evening star; Notus, the south-west wind; and Zephyrus, the west wind. |
| He is generally depicted with a man's upper body and serpent's tail, although he sometimes has wings and two faces looking forwards and backwards. |
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| Hesiod's diction is in the main Homeric, but one of his charms is the use of quaint allusive phrases derived, perhaps, from a pre- Hesiodic peasant poetry: thus the season when Boreas blows is the time when `the Boneless One gnaws his foot by his fireless hearth in his cheerless house'; to cut one's nails is `to sever the withered from the quick upon that which has five branches'; similarly the burglar is the `day-sleeper', and the serpent is the `hairless one'. With such a smile then, and with a voice sweet as the evening breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month of November, Mrs Bridget gently reproved the curiosity of Mrs Deborah; a vice with which it seems the latter was too much tainted, and which the former inveighed against with great bitterness, adding, "That, among all her faults, she thanked Heaven her enemies could not accuse her of prying into the affairs of other people. Words are wanting to paint the melancholy beauties of the ride to Schenectady, through gloomy forests, where the silvery pine waves in solemn grandeur to the sighings of Eolus, while Boreas threatens in vain their firm-rooted trunks. |
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