Orithyia

Oreithyia (Greek Ὠρείθυια " in the mountains storming ") is a nymph in Greek mythology. Homer mentions a Nereid Oreithyia, but such does not appear in the listed of Hesiod and in the Libraries of Apollodorus names of the Nereids.

Their name has more than one sort of " Bride of the Wind " from. This also corresponds to that she was abducted by Boreas, the north wind, in whose home [ came [ Thrace and Smyrna to Greece ] ], who begat four children with her, two sons and two daughters KALAIS and Zetes Cleopatra and Chione.

In the Attic mythology she appears as the daughter of Erechtheus, a mythical Athenian king, and Praxithea. This Boreas is in a sense the " son " of the Athenians. As an oracle advises threatened by Persian invasion Athenians to call her son to help and they therefore pray to Boreas, actually destroyed 480 BC, the north wind, the fleet of the Persians. The grateful Athenians built the Boreas and Oreithyia on Ilisos where the saga had taken place after the robbery, a sanctuary.