A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1890)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 450
n to the earth and became lame and blind from the fall. Boreas. Son of Astraeus and Eos (Aurora). Brother of Hes-perus, Zephyrus, and Notus. Himself the north or north-northeastwind. He carried Orithyia, daughter of Erechtheus, king of Attica,to his cave, which was in Mount Haemus in Thrace. By her… … BorefMS. (Bas-relief. Athens. Temple of the Winds.) At Athens the festival of theBoreasmi was in his honor, Briseis. Her real namewas Hippodamia ; wascalled Briseis from herfather, Briseus of Lyr-nessus. She fell into thehands of Achilles, fromwhom Ao;amemnon tookher. This made t)ie quar-rel…
Art and mythology · Christian art and symbolism
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