Boreas
Also known as: Thracian Boreas · Family: gods · Role: god · First appears: Book I 2
In Book I 2, Thracian Boreas was the father of Zetes and Calais. At Cecropia, he abducted Oreithyia while she danced by the stream of Hissus, carrying her to the rock of Sarpedon: “Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the dance, hard by Hissus’ stream.”
By Book II 2, Boreas was also the parent of Cleopatra, who had become the wife of Phineus. Phineus foretold that Boreas’s sons would restrain the Harpies: “These pests, the oracle declares, the sons of Boreas shall restrain.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Boreas abducts Oreithyia and carries her away to the rock of Sarpedon.(Book I 2 · 📍 Cecropia)
- With: Oreithyia
- “Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the dance, hard by Hissus’ stream. And, carrying her far off, to the spot that men called the rock of Sarpedon”
- Phineus foretells that the sons of Boreas will restrain the Harpies.(Book II 2)
Book I 2
- child: Zetes “Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas”
- child: Calais “Zetes and Calais, sons of Boreas”
- with Oreithyia (interaction) “Thracian Boreas snatched her away from Cecropia as she was whirling in the dance, hard by Hissus’ stream.”
Book II 2
- child: Zetes “These pests, the oracle declares, the sons of Boreas shall restrain.”
- child: Cleopatra (Cleopatra is identified as the sister of the sons of Boreas.) “These pests, the oracle declares, the sons of Boreas shall restrain. And no strangers are they that shall ward them off if indeed I am Phineus who was once renowned among men for wealth and the gift of prophecy, and if I am the son of my father Agenor; and, when I ruled among the Thracians, by my bridal gifts I brought home their sister Cleopatra to be my wife.”
Book II 3
Book II 4
- child: Zetes “the twin sons of Thracian Boreas came darting from the sky”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.