The Boreads are the "wind brothers" in Greek mythology. They consist of Zetes and Calaïs. Their place of origin was Thrace, home of their father Boreas.
Calaïs et Zétès délivrent Phinée des Harpies by Bernard Picart
The Boreads rescuing Phineus from the Harpies, column-krater by the Leningrad Painter, c. 460 BC, Louvre
Boreas 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. 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. Boreas's most known myth is his abduction of the Athenian princess Oreithyia.
Greco-Buddhist fragment of the god Boreas with billowing cloak (velificatio) overhead. Hadda, Afghanistan.
Boreas' rape of Oreithyia, Apulian red-figure oenochoe, 360 BC, Louvre.
Boreas abducts Oreithyia, ca 500s BC, Archaeological Museum of Delos.
Relief of Boreas in the Tower of the Winds, Athens.