ASTRAIOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 14.544) OFFSPRING
ASTRAIOS & EOS (Hesiod Theogony 378, Apollodorus 1.8, Hyginus Preface, Nonnus Dionysiaca 6.18 & 47.340) Mated with the Winds they produced many swift, immortal horses. The female counterparts of the Anemoi were the Aellai Harpyiai (Harpies). Later authors blurred the distinction between the two. The latter, spawned by the monster Typhoeus, were either housed in the caverns of Aiolos or guarded by the Hekatonkheires in the pits of Tartaros.
The Winds were portrayed as either man-shaped, winged gods who lived together in a cavern on Mount Haimos (Haemus) in Thrake (Thrace), or as horse-shaped divinities stabled by Aiolos (Aeolus) Hippotades, "the Reiner of Horses", on the island of Aiolia and set out to graze on the shores of the earth-encircling River Okeanos (Oceanus).Įarly poets, such as Homer and Hesiod, drew a clear distinction between the four, relatively benign, seasonal Winds (Anemoi) and the destructive Storm-Winds ( Anemoi Thuellai).
Each of these was associated with a season-Boreas was the cold breath of winter, Zephyros the god of spring breezes, and Notos the god of summer rain-storms. THE ANEMOI were the gods of the four winds-namely Boreas the North-Wind, Zephryos (Zephyrus) the West, Notos (Notus) the South, and Euros (Eurus) the East. Wind, Winds ( anemos) Zephyrus the west-wind as spring, Greco-Roman mosaic from Antioch C2nd A.D., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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