Boreas

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Boreas)

Life events

• Eos bears the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus to Astraeus.(Hesiod, Theogony 295-404)
  • With: Eos Astraeus Zephyrus Notus
  • “And Eos bare to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus,—a goddess mating in love with a god.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• child: Zetes “Zetes and Calais, the sons of Boreas”
• child: Calais “Zetes and Calais, the sons of Boreas”

Apollodorus, Library 3.15

• with Orithyia (interaction) “Boreas carried her off and had intercourse with her”
• child: Cleopatra “and she bore daughters, Cleopatra and Chione”
• child: Chione “and she bore daughters, Cleopatra and Chione”
• with Orithyia (interaction) “Boreas carried her off and had intercourse with her”

Hesiod, Theogony 295-404

• parent: Eos “and Boreas, headlong in his course”
• parent: Astraeus “And Eos bare to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.