Oreithyia
Greek · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
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.
Parentage
- parent: Erechtheus
- parent: Praxithea
Children
Domains
- wind
Relations
- sibling: ProcrisApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: Cecrops IIApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: PandorusApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- sibling: MetionApollodorus, Bibliotheca (secondary)
- mother of: Chione the Boread (Thracian snow-nymph daughter of Boreas + Oreithyia; mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon. Not registered as standalone entry per the registry's convention against registering nymph-class beings.) · GreekApollod. 3.15.2; Paus. 3.15.1 (primary)
- mother of: CleopatraApollod. 3.15.2; Paus. 3.15.1 (primary)
- lover: BoreasApollod. 3.15.2 (primary)
- mother of: CalaisApollod. 3.15.2; Apollon. 1.211-223 (primary)
- mother of: ZetesApollod. 3.15.2; Apollon. 1.211-223 (primary)