Boreas

Family: Greek · Role: wind god · First appears: Book 7 · §187–196

Life events

• The Athenians sacrificed to Boreas and Oreithuia and called on them to destroy the Barbarian ships.(Book 7 · §187–196 · 📍 Chalkis in Euboea)
  • With: Oreithuia
  • “they offered sacrifices and called upon Boreas and Oreithuia to assist them and to destroy the ships of the Barbarians”
• Boreas wrecked the Barbarian ships in a storm, according to the Athenians.(Book 7 · §187–196)
  • “the Athenians report that Boreas had come to their help in former times, and that at this time he accomplished those things for them of which I speak”

Book 7 · §187–196

• married with Oreithuia “Now according to the story of the Hellenes Boreas has a wife who is of Attica, Oreithuia the daughter of Erechththeus.”

Also listed in Greek — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.