Boreas (god)

Boreas
God of the north wind, storms, and winter
Member of the Anemoi
Greco-Buddhist fragment of the god Boreas with billowing cloak (velificatio) overhead. Hadda, Afghanistan.
Abode	Sky, Mount Olympus
Symbol	Conch shell
Personal information
Parents	Eos and Astraeus
Siblings	Winds (Eurus, Notus and Zephyrus), Eosphorus, the Stars, Memnon, Emathion, Astraea
Consort	Oreithyia
Children	Boreads, Chione, Cleopatra, Butes, Haemus, Cyparissia, twelve colts
Equivalents
Roman equivalent	Aquilo

Boreas (/ˌbɔːri.əs/, UK: /ˌbɒri.əs/, UK: /ˌbɒri.æs/,^[1] Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhâs)^[2] 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.^[3] Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man or sometimes as a young man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak.^[1] Boreas's most known myth is his abduction of the Athenian princess Oreithyia.