Boreas

Family: mythological · Role: god of the north wind · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 22

In Book 1, Boreas is named as the source of Musæus’s gift of flight, and Chione is said to be his daughter with Orithyia. In Book 5, Chapter 19, he carries off Orithyia: “Boreas is carrying off Orithyia”.

By Book 8, Chapter 36, Boreas has preserved Megalopolis from Agis and the Lacedæmonians; its people “hold no god in higher honour than Boreas”.

Relationship record

Life events

• Boreas carries off Orithyia.(Book 5 · Chapter 19)
  • With: Orithyia
  • “Boreas is carrying off Orithyia”
• Boreas preserved Megalopolis from Agis and the Lacedæmonians.(Book 8 · Chapter 36 · 📍 Megalopolis)
  • With: Agis (son of Eudamidas)
  • “they hold no god in higher honour than Boreas, as he was their preserver from Agis and the Lacedæmonians”

Book 1 · Chapter 22

• with Musæus (The text reports a poetic claim that Boreas granted Musæus the ability to fly.) “I have read verses in which it is recorded that Musæus could fly as a gift of Boreas”

Book 1 · Chapter 38

• child: Chione “and Chione was they say the daughter of Boreas and Orithyia.”

Book 5 · Chapter 19

• with Orithyia (abduction) “Boreas is carrying off Orithyia”

Book 8 · Chapter 36

• enemies with Agis (son of Eudamidas) “they hold no god in higher honour than Boreas, as he was their preserver from Agis and the Lacedæmonians.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.