Boreas. Son of Eos and Astraeus, Boreas (Aquilo) was the north wind, often associated with winter. He is best known for his abduction of Orithyia, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens, while she was playing by the river Ilissus. He took her to his native land of Thrace, where she bore him winged twin sons, Zetes and Calais (the Boreadae), who later participated in the Argonautic expedition.

Classical Sources. Homer, Iliad 20.221—29. Hesiod, Theogony 378-80. Orphic Hymns 80, ‘To Boreas.” Plato, Phaedrus 229B. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.211—23, 1.1302—08. Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.675-722, i4.223ff. Apollodorus, Biblioteca 3.15.1—4; Epitome 7.10. Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.19.5,5.19.1, 8.27.14, 8.36.6.

See also Pan, Loves.