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BOREAS , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, a personification of the See also:north See also:wind. He was described as the son of Astraeus and Eos, See also:brother of See also:Hesperus, Notus and See also:Zephyrus. His dwelling-See also:place was on See also:Mount Haemus in See also:Thrace, or at Salmydessus, near the See also:country of the See also:Hyperboreans. He was said to have carried off the beautiful Oreithyia, a daughter of See also:Erechtheus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Athens, when he found her leading the See also:dance at a festival, or gathering See also:flowers on the See also:banks of the Ilissus or some other spot in the neighbourhood of Athens. He had before wooed her in vain, and now carried her off to Mount Haemus, where they lived as king and See also:queen of the winds, and had two sons, Zetes and See also:Calais, and two daughters, See also:Cleopatra and Chione (See also:Apollodorus iii. 15; See also:Ovid,,Metam. vi. 677). For the loss of Oreithyia the Athenians in after times counted on Boreas's friendliness, and were assured of it when he sent storms which wrecked the See also:Persian See also:fleet at See also:Athos and at Sepias (See also:Herodotus vii. 189). For this they erected to him a See also:sanctuary or See also:altar near the Ilissus, and held a festival (Boreasmos) in his See also:honour. See also:Thurii also, which was a See also:colony of Athens, offered See also:sacrifice to him as Euergetes every See also:year, because he had destroyed the hostile fleet of See also:Dionysius the See also:elder (See also:Aelian, See also:Var. Hist. xii.
61). In See also:works of See also:art Boreas was represented as bearded, powerful, draped against See also:cold, and winged. On the See also:Tower of the Winds at Athens he is figured holding a See also:- SHELL
- SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)
shell, such as is blown by Tritons. Boreas carrying off Oreithyia is the subject of a beautiful See also:bronze See also:relief in.the See also:British Museum, found in the See also:island of Calymna. The same subject occurs frequently on painted Greek vases.
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