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'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos (the goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus , Zephyrus is the most gentle and favourable of the winds, associated with flowers, springtime and even procreation. [ 1 ]
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In European tradition, it has usually been considered the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, the god Zephyrus was the personification of the west wind and the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes; his Roman equivalent was Favonius (hence the adjective favonian, pertaining to the west wind).
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Zephyrus on an antique fresco in Pompeii Zephyrus and Hyacinth; Attic red-figure cup from Tarquinia, c. 480 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Zephyr and Flora, c. 1720, by Antonio Corradini, Victoria and Albert Museum. Zephyrus (Gk. Ζέφυρος [Zéphyros]), [5] sometimes shortened in English to Zephyr, is the Greek god of the west wind. The ...
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Chloris was abducted by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind (which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Orithyia), who transformed her into a deity known as Flora after they were married.