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Βορέας (EL)
Boreas (EN)

Ο Βορέας ήταν γιος του Αστραίου και της τιτανίδας Ηούς ή του Στρυμόνα και της Ευτέρπης (ή Τερψιχόρης) ή γιος του Αιόλου. Θεωρείται η προσωποποίηση του βόρειου ανέμου και είναι αδελφός του Ζέφυρου, του Νότου και  του Εύρου. Ήταν, επίσης, ο θεός του χειμώνα και η κρύα πνοή του κατέβαινε από τα βουνά της Θράκης μέχρι τη γη της Θεσσαλίας. Ο Βορέας κατοικούσε είτε κοντά στον ποταμό Στρυμόνα ή στο όρος Αίμος σε μια σπηλιά με επτά πύλες. Αναπαριστάται συνήθως με γένια και φτερά, ενώ ο Παυσανίας παραδίδει την εικόνα του Βορέα με φίδια στη θέση των ποδιών. Είχε απαγάγει την Ωρείθυια, κόρη του βασιλιά της Αθήνας Ερεχθέα ή Εριχθόνιου, τη στιγμή που αυτή έπαιζε με άλλες κοπέλες στον Ιλισσό ή, σύμφωνα με άλλες πηγές, κατά τη διάρκεια μιας λιτανείας της θεάς Αθηνάς Πολιάδας στην Αθήνα, και τη μετέφερε στη Θράκη. Σύμφωνα με τον Ηρόδοτο, εξαιτίας αυτής της ερωτικής περιπέτειας οι Αθηναίοι επικαλέστηκαν τη βοήθεια του Βορέα εναντίον των Περσών και ο Βορέας κατέστρεψε τον περσικό στόλο. Ο Βορέας απέκτησε με την Ωρείθυια τον Αίμο, την Κλεοπάτρα, τη Χιόνη, τη Χθονία, αλλά και τον Ζήτη και τον Κάλαη, τους επονομαζόμενους Βορεάδες. Ο Ζήτης και ο Κάλαης πήραν μέρος στην Αργοναυτική εκστρατεία, εξοπλισμένοι από τον Βορέα με χρυσοπόρφυρα φτερά. Ο Βορέας είχε και άλλα παιδιά από άλλες γυναίκες, από τα οποία τα πιο γνωστά ήταν ο Λυκούργος και ο Βούτης, ο οποίος, σύμφωνα με τον Διόδωρο τον Σικελιώτη, πρώτος αποίκισε τη Σαμοθράκη. Υπάρχουν και άλλες παραλλαγές μύθων, κατά τις οποίες ο  Βορέας  παρουσιάζεται να είναι ερωτευμένος με τη Νύμφη Πίτη, που αγαπούσε και ο Πάνας. Επίσης, κατά μια άλλη εκδοχή, ο Βορέας άρπαξε τη Χιόνη, τη θυγατέρα του Αρκτούρου, και τη μετέφερε στον Καύκασο, όπου και συνευρέθηκε μαζί της. Γι’ αυτό και η πρώτη ονομασία του Καύκασου ήταν «κοίτη Βορέου» (το κρεβάτι του Βορέα). Ακόμη, λέγεται ότι ο Βορέας, μεταμορφωμένος σε άλογο, ενώθηκε με τις φοράδες του Ερεχθέα και απέκτησε μαζί τους δώδεκα ανάλαφρα πουλάρια. Τα τέσσερα άλογα του θεού Άρη γεννήθηκαν από την ένωση του Βορέα με μια Ερινύα, αλλά και δυο άλογα που έδωσε ως δώρο στον πατέρα της Ωρείθυιας, Ερεχθέα, για να τον κατευνάσει για την αρπαγή της κόρης, ήταν αποτέλεσμα της συνεύρεσης του Βορέα με μια Άρπυια. Οι μύθοι αυτοί δικαιολογούν την ταχύτητα και την ευρωστία των αλόγων της θρακικής γης. Σύμφωνα, τέλος, με ένα σχόλιο στους Πυθιόνικους του Πίνδαρου, ο Βορέας ήταν ένας άρχοντας της Θράκης, τα παιδιά του οποίου ονομάστηκαν Βορεάδες από τον βόρειο τόπο καταγωγής τους. (EL)
Boreas was the son of Astraeus and the Titan Eos, or of Strymon and Euterpe (or Terpsichore), or of Aeolus. Considered the personification of the north wind, he was the brother of Zephyrus, Notus and Eurus. He was also the god of winter and the cold air that streams down into Thessaly from the mountains of Thrace. Boreas lived either near the river Strymon or on Mount Haemus in a cavern with seven portals. He is usually depicted winged and bearded; Pausanias mentions an image of him with serpents’ tails instead of feet. He abducted Oreithyia, daughter of Erechtheus (or Erichthonius), king of Athens, while she was playing with other girls by the river Ilissus or, in some sources, during a procession for Athena Polias, and carried her off to Thrace. According to Herodotus, it was this connection that emboldened the Athenians to ask for Boreas’ help against the Persians and he duly destroyed the Persian fleet. Boreas and Oreithyia had several children: Haemus, Cleopatra, Chione, Chthonia, and the twin sons known as the Boreads, whose names were Zetes and Calais, who thanks to their father were endowed with great gold and purple wings and who took part in the expedition of the Argonauts. Boreas had other children, too, by other women, the best known being Lycurgus and Butes, who according to Diodorus Siculus was the first inhabitant of Samothrace. Elsewhere, Boreas is said to have been enamoured of the nymph Pitys, beloved of Pan. Another legend has him abducting Chione, daughter of Arcturus, and carrying her off to the Caucasus, where he lay with her; that is why the original name of that region was “bed of the North Wind”. Boreas is also said to have changed himself into a stallion and sired twelve feather-light colts by the mares of Erichthonius and the four horses of Ares by one of the Furies, while the two horses that he gave Oreithyia’s father Erechtheus to appease him for the abduction of his daughter were the fruit of his union with one of the Harpies: these myths reflect the swiftness and sturdiness of the horses bred in Thrace. In one of Pindar’s Pythian Odes, finally, Boreas is said to have been a prince of Thrace whose children were called Boreads because of their northern homeland. (EN)


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A Boread is chasing a Harpy.
A Boread is chasing a Harpy.
Date
575 BC - 535 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Middle Archaic Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
Αττικό εργαστήριο, Attic workshop
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
On the Names of Rivers and Mountains 5.3
On the Names of Rivers and Mountains 5.3
Item type
Text
Creator
Ψευδο-Πλούταρχος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Dionysiaca 39.171-201
Dionysiaca 39.171-201
Item type
Text
Creator
Nonnus, Νόννος ο Πανοπολίτης
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Description of the Known World 420-429
Description of the Known World 420-429
Item type
Text
Creator
Διονύσιος ο Περιηγητής, Dionysius Periegetes
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Bibliotheca 3.15.2-3
Bibliotheca 3.15.2-3
Item type
Text
Creator
Απολλόδωρος, Apollodorus
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Commentaries on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.324
Commentaries on Pindar, Pythian Odes 4.324
Item type
Text
Creator
(Scholia in Pindarum)
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Metamorphoses 6.702-721
Metamorphoses 6.702-721
Item type
Text
Creator
Ovid, Οβίδιος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Argonautica 1.211-218
Argonautica 1.211-218
Item type
Text
Creator
Απολλώνιος Ρόδιος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Posthomerica 8.237-245
Posthomerica 8.237-245
Item type
Text
Creator
Κόιντος Σμυρναίος, Quintus Smyrnaeus
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Geographica 7.3.1
Geographica 7.3.1
Item type
Text
Creator
Strabo, Στράβωνας
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Phaedrus 229b-229d
Phaedrus 229b-229d
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Text
Creator
Πλάτωνας
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Bibliotheca Historica 5.50.1-3
Bibliotheca Historica 5.50.1-3
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Text
Creator
Διόδωρος Σικελιώτης
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Punic Wars 1.584-597
Punic Wars 1.584-597
Item type
Text
Creator
Silius Italicus, Σίλιος Ιταλικός
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Dionysiaca 37.155-161
Dionysiaca 37.155-161
Item type
Text
Creator
Nonnus, Νόννος ο Πανοπολίτης
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Description of Greece 5.19.1
Description of Greece 5.19.1
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Text
Creator
Παυσανίας, Pausanias
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Iliad 20.219-229
Iliad 20.219-229
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Text
Creator
Όμηρος, Homer
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Theogony 378-382
Theogony 378-382
Item type
Text
Creator
Hesiod, Ησίοδος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Histories 7.189.1-3
Histories 7.189.1-3
Item type
Text
Creator
Herodotus, Ηρόδοτος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Works and Days 502-528
Works and Days 502-528
Item type
Text
Creator
Hesiod, Ησίοδος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Fables 46
Fables 46
Item type
Text
Creator
Aesop
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Pythian Odes 4.178-183
Pythian Odes 4.178-183
Item type
Text
Creator
Πίνδαρος, Pindar
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Description of Greece 5.17.11
Description of Greece 5.17.11
Item type
Text
Creator
Παυσανίας, Pausanias
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Argonautica 1.574-578
Argonautica 1.574-578
Item type
Text
Creator
Βαλέριος Φλάκκος, Valerius Flaccus
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Argonautica 1.597-607
Argonautica 1.597-607
Item type
Text
Creator
Βαλέριος Φλάκκος, Valerius Flaccus
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Hymn to Delos 60-69
Hymn to Delos 60-69
Item type
Text
Creator
Callimachus, Καλλίμαχος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Odes 3.24.34-44
Odes 3.24.34-44
Item type
Text
Creator
Οράτιος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Loves or Beautiful Boys (fr. 1 Powell = Stobaeus, Eclogae IV 461-2 Hense)
Loves or Beautiful Boys (fr. 1 Powell = Stobaeus, Eclogae IV 461-2 Hense)
Item type
Text
Creator
Φανοκλής, Phanocles
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Metamorphoses 6.702-721
Metamorphoses 6.702-721
Item type
Text
Creator
Οβίδιος
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Deprecatio ad Hadrianum 34-40
Deprecatio ad Hadrianum 34-40
Item type
Text
Creator
Κλαυδιανός
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Orphica Argonautica 671-679
Orphica Argonautica 671-679
Item type
Text
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
Date
1453 - 1821
Item type
Archaeological object, Sculpture
Creator
Gaspard Marsy and Anselme Flamen, Gaspard Marsy και Anselme Flamen
Place
Versailles
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
Date
1453 - 1821
Item type
3D Αrtefacts and Realia
Creator
Francesco Solimena (1657-1747)
Place
Naples
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
The abduction of Oreithia by Boreas
Date
450 BC - 400 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Middle Classical Period
Item type
Sculpture
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas is chasing Oreithyia
Boreas is chasing Oreithyia
Date
480 BC - 323 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
Αttic workshop, αττικό εργαστήριο
Place
Alexandroupoli
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas
Boreas
Item type
3D Αrtefacts and Realia
Creator
πελοποννησιακό εργαστήριο, Peloponnesian workshop
Place
Kavala
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas is present in the creation of the first human by Prometheus
Boreas is present in the creation of the first human by Prometheus
Date
31 BC - 324
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Roman Period
Item type
Mosaic
Place
Madrid
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
The abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas
The abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas
Date
400 BC - 323 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Late Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
Attic workshop, αττικό εργαστήριο
Place
Tanágra
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
The abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas
The abduction of Oreithyia by Boreas
Date
480 BC - 450 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Early Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
Ζωγράφος του Πανός, Painter of Pan
Place
Áno Liósia
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas and Oreithia
Boreas and Oreithia
Date
535 BC - 480 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Late Archaic Period
Item type
3D Αrtefacts and Realia
Creator
εργαστήριο των ελληνικών αποικιών της Μαύρης Θάλασσας, workshop from the Greek colonies of the Black Sea
Place
Taranto
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Date
480 BC - 450 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Early Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
Ζωγράφος του Πανός, The Pan Painter
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Date
400 BC - 323 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Late Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
The Lycurgus Painter, Ζωγράφος του Λυκούργου
Place
Bari
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Oreithyia's abduction by Boreas
Oreithyia's abduction by Boreas
Date
480 BC - 450 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Early Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Creator
The Painter of the Birth of Athena, Ζωγράφος της γέννησης της Αθηνάς
Place
Cerveteri
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Item type
3D Αrtefacts and Realia
Place
Eretria
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas carrying off Oreithyia
Boreas carrying off Oreithyia
Date
480 BC - 323 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Classical Period
Item type
Vase
Place
Athens
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Boreas seizing Oreithyia
Date
400 BC - 323 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Late Classical Period
Item type
3D Αrtefacts and Realia
Place
Rodos Island
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
Boreas
Boreas
Date
150 BC - 31 BC
ekt:Proxy.dcterms:temporal.en
Late Hellenistic Period
Item type
Sculpture
Institution
Athena RC / Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)




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