Borea/Aquilone.

Borea (in greco antico: Βορέας, Boreas) è un personaggio della mitologia greca, la personificazione del Vento del Nord, figlio del titano Astreo e di Eos.
Viene raffigurato come un uomo barbuto alato, con due volti e con la chioma fluente e nella mitologia romana equivale ad Aquilone.

Genealogia

È fratello di Austro, Apeliote e Zefiro, sposo di Orizia e padre i maschi Calaide e Zete e le femmine Cleopatra e Chione.
Con due donne diverse generò Bute e Licurgo

Mitologia

Borea rapì Orizia (una principessa ateniese) che aveva preso in simpatia e supplicato per i suoi favori sperando di persuaderla, ma quando fu rifiutato tornò al suo solito temperamento e così la catturò mentre ballava sulle rive dell'Ilisos.
Borea la avvolse in una nuvola e la sposò e con lei generò i suoi primi quattro figli. Da quel momento in poi, gli Ateniesi videro Borea come un buon parente per matrimonio.
Borea era associato ai cavalli e si diceva che nelle fattorie di Erittonio re di Dardania, avesse preso la forma di uno stallone generando dodici puledri che, una volta nati era in grado di attraversare un campo di grano senza calpestare le piante.
Plinio il Vecchio (Storia Naturale IV.35 e VII.67) pensava che le fattrici potessero stare con i loro quarti posteriori al Vento del Nord e generare puledri senza stallone.
I Greci credevano che la sua casa fosse in Tracia ed Erodoto e Plinio descrivono entrambi una terra settentrionale nota come Hyperborea ("Oltre il Vento del Nord"), dove le persone vivevano in completa felicità e avevano una vita straordinariamente lunga.
Di Borea si dice anche che abbia generato tre giganteschi sacerdoti iperborei di Apollo di Chione.
In ricordo del presunto aiuto dato da Borea nella Battaglia di Capo Artemisio agli Ateniesi per sconfiggere la flotta persiana, furono istituite le Boreasmi, feste in suo onore.

relief of Boreas

Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta, 1882-1972; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1915) Greek, Etruscan and Roman bronzes, New York: The Gilliss Press Retrieved on 29 April 2011.

Boreas

Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. Although normally taken as the north wind, the Roman writers Aulus Gellius and Pliny the Elder both took Boreas as a north-east wind, equivalent to the Roman Aquilo. Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match. He was frequently shown as a winged old man with shaggy hair and beard, holding a conch shell and wearing a billowing cloak. Pausanias wrote that Boreas had snakes instead of feet, though in art he was usually depicted with winged human feet.
Boreas' two sons Calaïs and Zetes, known as Boreads, were in the crew of the Argo as Argonauts.
Boreas was closely associated with horses. He was said to have fathered twelve colts after taking the form of a stallion, to the mares of Erichthonius, king of Dardania. These were said to be able to run across a field of grain without trampling the plants. Pliny the Elder (Natural History iv.35 and viii.67) thought that mares might stand with their hindquarters to the North Wind and bear foals without a stallion. The Greeks believed that his home was in Thrace, and Herodotus and Pliny both describe a northern land known as Hyperborea "Beyond the North Wind" where people lived in complete happiness and had extraordinarily long lifespans. He is said to have fathered three giant Hyperborean priests of Apollo by Chione.
Boreas was also said to have kidnapped Orithyia, an Athenian princess, from the Ilisos. Boreas had taken a fancy to Orithyia and had initially pleaded for her favours, hoping to persuade her. When this failed, he reverted to his usual temper and abducted her as she danced on the banks of the Ilisos. Boreas wrapped Orithyia up in a cloud, married her, and with her, Boreas fathered two sons—the Boreads, Zethes and Calais—and two daughters—Chione, goddess of snow, and Cleopatra.

From then on, the Athenians saw Boreas as a relative by marriage. When Athens was threatened by Xerxes, the people prayed to Boreas, who was said to have then caused winds to sink 400 Persian ships. A similar event had occurred twelve years earlier, and Herodotus writes:

Now I cannot say if this was really why the Persians were caught at anchor by the stormwind, but the Athenians are quite positive that, just as Boreas helped them before, so Boreas was responsible for what happened on this occasion also. And when they went home they built the god a shrine by the River Ilissus.

The abduction of Orithyia was popular in Athens before and after the Persian War, and was frequently depicted on vase paintings. In these paintings, Boreas was portrayed as a bearded man in a tunic, with shaggy hair that is sometimes frosted and spiked. The abduction was also dramatized in Aeschylus's lost play Oreithyia.
In other accounts, Boreas was the father of Butes (by another woman) and the lover of the nymph Pitys.

Boreas orithya

Il rapimentlo di Orizia

Aquilo

The Roman equivalent of Boreas was Aquilo. This north-east wind was associated with winter. The poet Virgil writes^:

interea magnum sol circumvolvitur annum, et glacialis hiemps aquilonibus asperat undas

Meanwhile the sun moves round the great year, and icy winter roughens the waters with north-east winds

For the wind which came directly from the north the Romans sometimes used the name Septentrio.

Greco-Buddhist fragment of the wind god Boreas, Hadda, Afghanistan

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Wind god Boreas, Hadda, Afghanistan. Musee Guimet. Personal photograph 2005.

Tower of the Winds in ancient Athens, part of the frieze depicting the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right)

en:User:Morn (<mdoege@compuserve.com>) - Uploaded to en: on September 28 2006.

Detail of the frieze on the Tower of the Winds. Shown are the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right).

Rape of Oreithyia by Boreas. Detail from an Apulian red-figure oenochoe, ca. 360 BC.

Salting Painter - Jastrow (2006)

Louvre

Kupferstich (1795) von Tommaso Piroli (1752 – 1824) nach einer Zeichnung (1793) von John Flaxman (1755 – 1826).H.-P.Haack - Antiquariat Dr. Haack Leipzig

James Stuart & Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett Painters and Αrchitects, vol. III (ed. Willey Reveley), London, John Nichols, 1794

Boreas 1903

John William Waterhouse

Ehemaliges Deutschordensschloss in Ellingen im Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen (Mittelfranken/Bayern), Treppenhaus von Franz Keller, Stuckdekor von Franz Joseph Roth, Relief, Darstellung: Boreas raubt Oreithyia

GFreihalter - Opera propria

Borée (chapiteau antique). Illustration de "Histoires des météores", p. 153 - 1870

Jean Edouard Dargent - Gallica

Illustrations of Odyssey 1810

John Flaxman

Parc Josaphat, Schaerbeek (Bruxelles), belgique. Statue de Borée de Joseph Van Hamme

Michel wal - Opera propria

Tower of the Winds, Athens

Georg Zumstrull

Varsavia, Palazzo dei Quattro Venti (Pałac Pod Czterema Wiatrami) su via Długa, statua di un vento ("Borea").

MM - Opera propria (Testo originale: Self made photo)

Boreas, the north wind and the Thracian ruler, kidnaps the princess of Athens Oreithya, daughter Orechtheon. Central akroterion from the east side of the Athenians Temple of Apollo on Delos. Athenians classic work, marble, 421-417 BC. Museum of Delos, A 04287, A 4279, A 4280.

Zde - Opera propria

Attic red-figure pelikai depicting Boreas kidnapping Oreithyia; probably found in Ceverteri, today at the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe in Hambrg (1980.174); attributed to the Painter of the Birth of Athena by Donna C. Kutz and Martha Ohly-Dumm; Clay, about 460 BC

unknown (picture)

Boreas abducting Oreithyia; Herse (left) try to help her sister. Redrawing of a attic red-figure pointed amphora, 470–460 BC.

Oreithyia Painter (name vase) - Baumeister: Denkmäler des klassischen Altertums. 1888. Band I., Seite 352.

Pelike with Boreas and Orithyia, attributed to the Niobid Painter, Attick, c. 460 BC, L 511 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany

Borey

This is a photo of a cultural heritage object in Russia, number:

Ара на Неве - Opera propria

Sculpture "Boreus" in Catherine park of Tsarskoe Selo, Saint Petersburg

Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov

Peter Paul Rubens

1620 circa

François Verdier - Boreas Abducting Oreithyia - 1688

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli - Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

XVII sec.

Francesco Solimena - Boreas Abducting Oreithyia, Daughter of Erechteus - 1729

This composition, a copy of a replica of around 1730 by the great Neapolitan artist Solimena after his own earlier painting of 1701, represents a scene adapted from "The Metamorphoses," the famous poem on the loves of the gods by the 1st-century Roman author Ovid. The north wind Boreas was in love with Orithya, the daughter of the king of Athens. She refused him, and, in anger, the god abducted the frightened young woman from amid her maidens-in-waiting. Flying cupids (little gods of love) symbolize the passion that motivated Boreas. The dramatic use of flickering patches of light and shadow is characteristic of Solimena's style although the color is less intense. Copies of popular compositions were avidly bought for inclusion in decorative arrangements.

Maniera di Francesco Solimena - Walters Art Museum