Athenian Erechtheid princess, daughter of Erechtheus and Praxithea; carried off by the north wind Boreas from the banks of the Ilissus; mother of the Boread twins Calais and Zetes by Boreas in Thrace. The abduction was a historically-active myth in classical Athens — Herodotus 7.189 records Athenian invocations of Boreas as son-in-law (gambros) before the Battle of Artemisium (480 BCE) on the basis of the marriage. The Plato Phaedrus passage (229b-d) has Socrates rationalize the myth as a fall from a wind-blown cliff while gathering flowers — the philosophical critique preserved alongside the mythographic version.