Euros
Euros ( Greek Εὖρος ) was the east wind in Greek mythology . His parents are Astraios , god of dusk, and goddess of dawn Eos . The Euros brothers are the Anemoi .
Originally all easterly winds were referred to as Euros . Specifically as a wind that blows from the southeast in winter, the Euros was also known as Eurónotos . It also appears as a southeast wind on the Tower of the Winds in Athens . The Euros got the name after Vitruvius because it comes from the direction of dawn ( quod ex auris procreatur ).
The wind blowing directly from the east was called Apheliotes ( Greek Ἀφηλιώτης , Ionic Ἀπηλιώτης ). The Romans called him subsolanus or solanus . According to Aristotle , the Apheliotes is damp and blows from the east.
literature
- Kora Neuser: Anemoi: Studies for the representation of the winds and wind gods in antiquity. Archeologica 19. Bretschneider, Rome 1982.
Web links
- Euros in the Theoi Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer Iliad 2,145
- ↑ Homer Odyssey 5,291; Quintus von Smyrna Posthomerica 12.189, Gaius Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.574, Nonnos von Panopolis Dionysiaka 6.18
- ↑ Vitruv de architectura 1, 6, 11
- ↑ Seneca naturales quaestiones 5,16,4; Pliny the Elder naturalis historia 2,119; Aulus Gellius Noctes Atticae 2,22,8
- ↑ Vitruv de architectura 1,6,4 f.
- ↑ Aristoteles meteorologica 2.6.363b 13, 364 a 21 f. and 364b 28 f.