Zephyrus
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In Greek mythology and religion, Zephyrus, also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos and Astraeus, Ze
Zephyrus on an antique fresco in Pompeii
Zephyr and Flora, c. 1720, by Antonio Corradini, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Zephyrus with Chloris in Primavera by Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1470s–1480s, oil on canvas.
Zephyrus relief from the Tower of the Winds, Athens.
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.