< Boreas, son of Butes >

1 Origin

Boreas was born in Athens in 1407 BC.

1.1 Father of Boreas

The following suggests that Boreas' father was Butes, the twin brother of Erechtheus, the sixth king of Athens.

1) Butes was a priest of Athens.

2) The Hyperboreans were descendants of Boreas.

3) The Hyperboreans had a long history of religious ties with Athens and Delos.

4) It is not chronologically inconsistent to say that Butes was Boreas' father.

2 Family

Boreas married Oreithyia (or Oreithyia), the daughter of Erechtheus, the sixth king of Athens.

Boreas had a daughter, Cleopatra.

Boreas had a daughter, Chione.

Boreas had twin sons, Zetes and Calais.

3 Others

In 1390 BC, a huge tsunami occurred in the Aegean Sea and struck Athens.

Boreas and Orithyia joined the colony of Aeetes, the son of Sisyphus, who was about to set sail from Ephyra (later Corinth) in search of a new land.

Boreas and Orithyia traveled up the Hebrus (now Maritsa) River, across from Samothrace in Thracia, and settled near its tributary, the Rheginia (now Ergene) River. The Rheginia River was formerly called the Erigon River, and was located at the foot of Mount Haemon, near the Sarpedon Rock.