A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 452
o the earth and became lame anrl 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 Hajmus in Thrace. By her… … Boreas.i(Bas-re!ief. Athens. Temple of the Winds.) At Athens the festival of theBoreasmi was in his honor. Briseis. Her real namewas llippoilainia ; wascalled Briseis irom herfather, Bi-iseus of Lvr-nessus. She fell into thehands of Achilles, fromwhom Agamemnon tookher. This made the (|uar-rel…
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