Boreads

The Boreadas deliver Fineo de las Harpías. Antiverse of a piece of static ceramic of red figures (ca. 460 BC): a column crater found in Altamura.

In Greek mythology, the Boreas were the winged twins Calais and Zetes, sons of the wind-god Boreas and Oritia, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens.

They were Argonauts and played a particularly vital role in rescuing Phineus from the clutches of the Harpies, for they managed to drive the monsters away without killing them, as requested by the goddess Iris, who promised that Phineus would never be bothered by them again. they. In gratitude, Phineus told the Argonauts how to pass the Symplegades.

Fonts

• APOLONIO: Argonáuticas I, 211 - 223; II, 234 et seq.
  • I, 211 - 223.
    • I: English translation, on Theoi; ed. by R. C. Seaton at the Loeb Classical Library.
      • I, 211 - 223: Greek text, in the Perseus Project. At the top right are the active labels "focus"(to change the annotations) and "load" (to simultaneously visualize text and annotations); using the label "load" inferior, you get help in English with the Greek vocabulary of the text.
      • I, 211 - 223: Greek text, on Wikisource.
  • II, 234 et seq.
    • II: English translation in Theoi.
      • II, 234 et seq.: Greek text, in the Perseus Project, with the characteristics indicated above.
      • II, 234 et seq.: Greek text, in Wikisource.