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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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