A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 453
n to the earth and became lame and blind fi-om 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 Ha^mus in Thrace. By… … Boreas.(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 Agamemnon tookher. This made the quar-rel between the…
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