18/09/2023
The Flight of Boreas with Orithyia
Orithyia was considered to be one of the most beautiful princesses of the age, and her beauty attracted Boreas, the Greek god of the North Wind.
She was the daughter of King Erechtheus and Queen Praxithea. A mortal girl.
Boreas first attempted to seduce Orithyia, even going so far as to approach King Erechtheus as to ask his permission to marry his daughter.
The words of Boreas did not convince Orithyia though, and as anger overtook the god, Boreas decided to abduct Orithyia instead.
She resisted at the beginning.
At the end Orithyia became the immortal wife of Boreas, living with her husband in his palace upon Mount Haemus in Thrace.
Orithyia was subsequently named as the Greek goddess of the cold mountain winds.
By Charles William Mitchell
1854-1903