Hyacinth (mythology)
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Hyacinth or Hyacinthus is a deified hero and a lover of Apollo in Greek mythology. His cult at Amyclae southwest of Sparta dates from the Mycenaean era. The hero is mythically linked to local cults an
The Death of Hyacinthos (1801), by Jean Broc. The discus that killed Hyacinthos can be seen at his feet. Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France.
Hyacinthus and the West Wind engaging in intercrural sex on a red-figure vase (5th century BCE)
Apollo and Hyacinth (1603-1604) by Domenichino
Apollo, Hyacinth and Cyparissus singing and playing by Alexander Ivanov, 1831–1834
Boreas
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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 northeas
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.