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	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Boreads (winged sons of Boreas, god of the North Wind) and Harpies ("snatchers" - birds with women,s faces who snatched up things and people) appeared fairly often in archaic art.
		They are associated in the Argonaut story, where the boreads, who were members of the Argonaut expedition, chased away the harpies who were stealing the food of the blind king Phineus.
		If the smaller figure on this vase is meant to be one of the regular Harpies it should be female, and it is odd that the face is bearded.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?group=typecat&lookup=Harpy (281 words)

	harpy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This continued until the arrival of Jason and the Argonauts.
		They sent the winged heroes, the Boreads after the harpies.
		They succeeded in driving the monsters away but did not kill them, as a request from the goddess of the rainbow, Iris, who promised that Phineas would not be bothered by the harpies again.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /harpy.html (245 words)

	Taming the Winds
		Zephyrus, god of the West Wind, is known in the artistic record of antiquity mainly on account of his romantic attachments, which are somewhat more numerous than those of his brother Boreas; his lovers include the Spartan youth Hyacinthus, the goddess of the Rainbow, Iris, and the goddess of flowers, Chloris-Flora.
		All of these unions are documented and illustrated; however, the myth of Zephyrus’ rape of the Harpy Podarge (Iliad XVI.148-151) is not represented, possibly because Harpies were not perceived as creatures of beauty but of rapaciousness, and instead are shown pursued by the Boreads, Zetes and Calaïs, in the tale of Phineus from the Argonautica.
		Another suggestion as to the identity of the bearded figure is that it could be one of the Boreads, Zetes or Calaïs, a popular enough pair in early fl-figure pottery, particularly Corinthian, but less so in the later Attic red-figure period.
	www.angelfire.com /al3/anemokoitai/zephyrus.html (3773 words)

	Biography of Apollonius Sophistes
		On both sides, Apollonius is descended from the Boreads, the priests and priestesses of Hyperborean Apollo.
		One of these ancestors was the Boread Henry de Beletun, from Dunbar (Scotland), who knew the secrets of spirit flight passed down from Abaris, his ancestor, and taught them to the sorcerer Michael Scot.
		This Apollonios was descended from Abaris, who was a Boread born in the Caucasus.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/BA/bio.html (1568 words)

	Jason, Greece, Greek mythology
		Among the 50 Argonauts were Heracles, Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri), Calais and Zethes (the Boreads), Tiphus, Nestor, Ancaeus and Orpheus.
		It was ruled by women only after all the men had been killed for ignoring their wives for the thracian slave women.
		Every day the flying monsters the Harpyes would torment him, and whenever the king would try to eat, they took most of it and made the rest stink.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/jason.htm (916 words)

	Phineus
		Whenever Phineus sat down to eat, the Harpies would swoop down and steal the food; what little food they left would be foul-smelling and unpalatable.
		When Jason and the Argonauts arrived in Phineus' land, they rid his household of the curse by having the winged Boreads pursue the Harpies; the goddess Iris prevented the Boreads from killing the Harpies by promising that Phineus would not be troubled again.
		In return for the Argonauts' help, Phineus foretold the results of their quest, and revealed to them how they should get past the hazard of the Symplegades.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/p/phineus.html (163 words)

	The Religion of the Ancient Celts: Chapter III. The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts
		The kings of the city where the temple stood, and its overseers, were called "Boreads," and every nineteenth year the god appeared dancing in the sky at the spring equinox.
		The identifications of the temple with Stonehenge and of the Boreads with the Bards are quite hypothetical.
		Apollonius says that the Celts regarded the waters of Eridanus as due to the tears of Apollo--probably a native myth attributing the creation of springs and rivers to the tears of a god, equated by the Greeks with Apollo.
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/rac/rac06.htm (7800 words)

	Harpies
		They were represented carrying off persons to the underworld and inflicting punishment or tormenting them.
		They robbed the food from Phineus, but were driven away by Cailas and Zetes, the Boreads, and since then they lived on the Strophades.
		The Harpies were probably the personification of storm winds.
	www.unbsj.ca /arts/english/pages/contact/~harpies.html (419 words)

	JASON FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Together, the heroes were known as the Argonauts.
		They included the Boreads, Heracles, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor_and_Polydeuces, Atalanta and Euphemus.
		The isle of Lemnos is situated off the Western coast of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey).
	www.witwib.com /Jason_&_Kristopher_Simmons (1332 words)

	Taming the Winds
		It may be an influence held over from the Orientalising period, when winged Near Eastern gods and goddesses were copied and synthesised with Greek deities, particularly the ‘Master/Mistress of the Animals’ that often appears on Orientalising pottery.
		The running winged daimones of Corinthian and Laconian ware may have had a similar origin, and there is some discussion on how we should interpret these creatures: are they representative of Wind-gods, or are they Boreads (the sons of Boreas and Oreithuia), or are they nature spirits of another kind (96)?
		Aside from this undeniable influence, wings suggest speed and strength, both natural states for a Wind-god.
	www.angelfire.com /al3/anemokoitai/icon.html (692 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1998.10.12
		Carpino's recent dissertation is the basis of a thorough analysis of the Classical relief mirrors often associated with Vulci.
		She notes how intensely Etruscan artists have engaged Greek myths (Philoktetes, Talos and the Boreads, Helen's Egg) yet portrayed a radically different understanding of them.
		Nagy offers evidence of the great sophistication and individuality of the clients of one 3rd-century Chiusine workshop whose products may be seen all over the world.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-10-12.html (2276 words)

	The Names of the Moons and Their Meanings
		Harpalyke I don't know of a figure in mythology with this name, but the Greek word means something like "greedy, devouring, alluring, attractive." It could refer to the Harpies, nasty bird-women who punished people, took their souls to the underworld, and were personifications of storms.
		They also stole and befouled King Phineus's food so that he nearly starved to death, until they were driven away by the Boreads.
		Praxidike "She who exacts penalties," a goddess represented with a bare head, to whom the heads of victims were offered.
	www.fief.org /kathleen/Moons/Moons.html (2514 words)

	The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries: Section III. The Cult Of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead: Chapter VIII. The ...
		And further (thereby admitting the sacred purpose of the group), Sir John Rhŷs sees no objection to identifying Stonehenge with the famous temple of Apollo in the island of the Hyperboreans, referred to in the journal of Pytheas' travels.
		According to Sir John Rhŷs's interpretation of this journal, 'the kings of the city containing the temple and the overseers of the latter were the Boreads, who took up the government in succession, according to their tribes.
		The citizens gave themselves up to music, harping and chanting in honour of the Sun-god, who was every nineteenth year wont himself to appear about the time of the vernal equinox, and to go on harping and dancing in the sky until the rising of the Pleiades.'
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/ffcc/ffcc308.htm (7849 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Vase painters, §II: Boreads Painter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		He is named after a vase (Rome, Villa Giulia) depicting The Boreads Pursuing the Harpies.
		Unlike his contemporary the NAUKRATIS PAINTER, he was a narrative artist whose simply painted, lively scenes would have been better suited to long friezes than they were to their constricted cup tondi.
		In addition to several paintings of the Boreads he depicted Bellerophon and the Chimaera, the Introduction of Herakles to Olympos, and, more than once, Herakles and the Hydra and Achilles’; Ambush of Troilos.
	www.artnet.com /library/08/0881/T088108.asp (274 words)

	BOREADS - Gods from Greek Mythology
		BOREADS: Calais and Zetes are two Winged Wind Heroes.
		The BOREADS pop up all over the place, and claim their sister is Cleopatra.
		All very confusing and nothing to do with a French port as far as we know.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=BOREADS (127 words)

	Russia, CIS, Economy
		The Americans have to pretend that they want these troops both because they need to preserve the fiction of an American-led coalition against terrorism, and more importantly because they still regard NATO as an essential vehicle for US interests in Europe.
		If this organization in whose praise such boreads of official praise have been expended in recent years were revealed to be completely irrelevant to the greatest security crisis of the era, some wicked dissidents might really begin to wonder why it is still around.
		But of course the Americans don't really want European troops in Afghanistan.
	www.cdi.org /russia/Johnson/5582-12.cfm (1913 words)

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