Boreas
God
Boreas (, UK: , UK: ; Ancient Greek: Βορέας, romanized: Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhâs) is the Greek god of the cold north wind, storms, and winter. Although he was normally taken as the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a northeast wind, equivalent to the Roman god Aquilo or Septentrio.
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Mentions in the Iliad
A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
“that blow with shrill blasts and scatter this way and that the shadowy clouds; even so the Danaans withstood the Trojans steadfastly, and fled not. And the son of Atreus ranged throughout the throng with many a word of command: My friends, be men, and take to you hearts of valour, and have shame each of the other in the fierce conflict. Of men that have shame more are saved than are slain, but from them that flee cometh neither glory nor any avail. He spake, and hurled his spear swiftly and smote a foremost warrior, a comrade of great-souled Aeneas, Deïcoön,”
“and forth from his thigh valiant Pelagon, that was his dear comrade, thrust the spear of ash; and his spirit failed him, and down over his eyes a mist was shed. Howbeit he revived, and the breath of the North Wind as it blew upon him made him to live again after in grievous wise he had breathed forth his spirit. But the Argives before the onset of Ares and Hector harnessed in bronze”
“the North Wind and the West Wind that blow from Thrace, coming suddenly, and forthwith the dark wave reareth itself in crests and casteth much tangle out along the sea; even so were the hearts of the Achaeans rent within their breasts. But the son of Atreus, stricken to the heart with sore grief,”
“driven up from the deep by the dread blast of the North Wind, nor so loud is the roar of blazing fire in the glades of a nuountain when it leapeth to burn the forest, nor doth the wind shriek so loud amid the high crests of the oaks—the wind that roareth the loudest in its rage—”
“eased of its ceaseless pain for godlike Heracles, whom thou when thou hadst leagued thee with the North Wind and suborned his blasts, didst send over the unresting sea, by thine evil devising, and thereafter didst bear him away unto well-peopled Cos. Him did I save from thence, and brought again”
“And as when from the clouds there flieth snow or chill hail, driven by the blast of the North Wind that is born in the bright heaven, even so fleetly sped in her eagerness swift Iris; and she drew nigh, and spake to the glorious Shaker of Earth, saying: A message for thee, O Earth-Enfolder, thou dark-haired god,”
“and then herself was gone to the stout-builded house of her mighty sire, and the Achaeans poured forth from the swift ships. As when thick and fast the snowflakes flutter down from Zeus chill beneath the blast of the North Wind, born in the bright heaven; even so then thick and fast from the ships were borne the helms, bright-gleaming,”
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“who became richest of mortal men. Three thousand steeds had he that pastured in the marsh-land; mares were they. rejoicing in their tender foals. Of these as they grazed the North Wind became enamoured, and he likened himself to a dark-maned stallion and covered them;”
“and all the plain was parched, and the bright water was stayed. And as when in harvest-time the North Wind quickly parcheth again a freshly-watered orchard, and glad is he that tilleth it; so was the whole plain parched, and the dead he utterly consumed; and then against the River he turned his gleaming flame.”
“to the North Wind and the West Wind, and promised fair offerings, and full earnestly, as he poured libations from a cup of gold, he besought them to come, to the end that the corpses might speedily blaze with fire, and the wood make haste to be kindled. Then forthwith Iris heard his prayer, and hied her with the message to the winds.”
“as he peered for an opening,and smote him on the cheek, nor after that, methinks, did he long stand upright, for even there did his glorious limbs sink beneath him. And as when beneath the ripple of the North Wind a fish leapeth up on the tangle-strewn sand of a shallow, and then the black wave hideth it, even so leapt up Euryalus when he was smitten. But great-souled Epeius”
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In art
Sebastiano Conca. Boreas Abducting Oreithyia. Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18573817
John William Waterhouse. Северный ветер (картина Уотерхауса). Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4944794
Peter Paul Rubens. Boreas Abducting Oreithyia. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8253935
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Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon. Boreas Abducting Oreithyia. Musée Girodet. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97925760
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. Boreas and Orithyia. Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Public domain. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18611898
Original uploader was Per Honor et Gloria at en.wikipedia. WindGod2. собрание не указано. CC BY-SA 3.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AWindGod2.JPG
Image author: Original uploader was Per Honor et Gloria at en.wikipedia
Image date: 19 February 2006 (original upload date)
Xocolatl ( talk ) 21:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC). AIMG 6529 M Stadtmuseum Boreas. собрание не указано. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAIMG_6529_M_Stadtmuseum_Boreas.jpg
Image author: Xocolatl (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Image date: 2019
Holger.Ellgaard. Stockholms slott sydfasad skulpturgrupp 2011a. собрание не указано. CC BY-SA 3.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AStockholms_slott_sydfasad_skulpturgrupp_2011a.jpg
Image author: Holger.Ellgaard
Image date: 2011
Reshinna. DSC05771 2020 Бюст Борей. собрание не указано. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADSC05771_2020_%D0%91%D1%8E%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9.jpg
Image author: Reshinna
Image date: 2020-10-10 18:00:25
Jan Frans van Geel. Boreas abducting Oreithyia. собрание не указано. CC0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJan_Frans_van_Geel_-_Boreas_abducting_Oreithyia.jpg
Image author: Jan Frans van Geel
Image date: between 1800 and 1812
MM. VarsaviaPalazzo4VentiVento2. собрание не указано. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AVarsaviaPalazzo4VentiVento2.jpg
Image author: MM
Image date: 2007-03
Michel wal. Schaerbeek Parc Josaphat 903. CC BY-SA 3.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124037042
Image author: Michel wal
Image date: 2009
Xocolatl ( talk ) 21:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC). AIMG 6516 M Stadtmuseum Juri Miranha Grabrelief komplett. собрание не указано. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAIMG_6516_M_Stadtmuseum_Juri_Miranha_Grabrelief_komplett.jpg
Image author: Xocolatl (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Image date: 2019
Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Relief of Boreas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nr. 10.230.2. собрание не указано. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ARelief_of_Boreas%2C_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art%2C_Nr._10.230.2.JPG
Image author: Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Image date: 1915
Mosaico de Océano (48928130318). Museu Municipal de Faro. CC BY 2.0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136792744
Gaspard Marsy. Boreas Abducting Orithya. Department of Sculptures of the Louvre. CC BY 2.5. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87453522
Salting Painter. Oinochoe with decoration of the abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas. Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities of the Louvre. CC0. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87816092
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