All entities

Character · Individual

Boreas

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Boreas
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
A named personified wind in a simile; the source does not explicitly call him a deity.

Aliases

0

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

2
Troy1 observation
·Direct

Boreas was one of the two winds that reached Troy and fell upon the pyre.

See evidence text
the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them. They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre
Thracian sea1 observation
·Direct

Boreas was one of the winds that swept over the Thracian sea on the homeward journey.

See evidence text
The winds then went home beyond the Thracian sea, which roared and boiled as they swept over it.

Claims

7
·Simile

In the cloud simile, fierce Boreas sleeps among boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter clouds.

See evidence text
fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions
·Simile

Boreas is the comparison-wind whose blast drives loudly thundering waves onto shore.

See evidence text
when driven before the blast of Boreas
·Reported

Jove says Boreas and Juno spitefully carried Hercules over the seas to Cos after suborning the tempests.

See evidence text
noble Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos, after suborning the tempests
·Simile

In a simile for Iris’s flight, Boreas drives cold hail and snowflakes from the clouds with his blast.

See evidence text
cold hail or snowflakes that fly from out the clouds before the blast of Boreas
·Reported

Aeneas says Boreas desired the feeding mares and, in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion, covered them.

See evidence text
Boreas was enamoured of them as they were feeding, and covered them in the semblance of a dark-maned stallion
·Direct

Boreas feasted in Zephyrus's house and approached Iris, calling her to him.

See evidence text
They were holding high feast in the house of boisterous Zephyrus when Iris came running up to the stone threshold of the house and stood there, but as soon as they set eyes on her they all came towards her and each of them called her to him
·Direct

Boreas rose with an air-rending cry, swept clouds, raised waves, and blasted Patroclus's pyre until it roared.

See evidence text
the two winds rose with a cry that rent the air and swept the clouds before them. They blew on and on until they came to the sea, and the waves rose high beneath them, but when they reached Troy they fell upon the pyre till the mighty flames roared under the blast that they blew.

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

4
·Simile
Boreas sleeps
·Remembered
Hercules whom you and Boreas had spitefully conveyed beyond the seas to Cos
·Remembered
Boreas was enamoured of them
·Direct
the two winds Boreas and Zephyrus

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 42

The two Ajaxes, Ulysses and Diomed, cheered the Danaans on, fearless of the fury and onset of the Trojans. They stood as still as clouds which the son of Saturn has spread upon the mountain tops when there is no air and fierce Boreas sleeps with the other boisterous winds whose shrill blasts scatter the clouds in all directions—even so did the Danaans stand firm and unflinching against the Trojans. The son of Atreus went about among them and exhorted them. ‘My friends,’ said he, ‘quit yourselves like brave men, and shun dishonour in one another’s eyes amid the stress of battle. They that shun dishonour more often live than get killed, but they that fly save neither life nor name.’