Boreas

Boreas, the Greek name of the north-east wind, blowing towards Hellas from the Thracian mountains, and personified in mythology as the son of Astræus and of Eos or Aurora, and as brother of Notus, Zephyrus, and Hesperus. He was said to dwell in a cave of the Thracian Hæmus. He had a temple in Athens, because he destroyed the Persian fleet of Xerxes; and at Megalopolis, a yearly festival was celebrated in honour of his aid against the Spartans.