The river of Athens beside which Orithyia was playing when Boreas carried her off — named among the Rivers of Oceanus and Tethys in Hyginus, and remembered by Apollodorus and Apollonius as the setting of the abduction that produced the Boread twins Zetes and Calais.1
Apollodorus sets the abduction at the Ilissus. While Orithyia, daughter of Erechtheus, was playing by the Ilissus river, Boreas carried her off and had intercourse with her; she bore daughters Cleopatra and Chione, and winged sons Zetes and Calais — the Boreads who sailed with Jason and perished chasing the Harpies.2
Apollonius places the scene at Cecropia on the verge of wintry Thrace: there Boreas snatched Orithyia as she whirled in the dance, hard by Ilissus' stream, and carried her to the rock of Sarpedon near the river Erginus — the Athenian river named even in the Argonautic telling of the northern wind's violence.3
Hyginus counts Ilissus among the Rivers born of Oceanus and Tethys in his genealogical preface — the Attic stream enrolled in the divine brood of fresh waters alongside Inachus, Cephisus, and Scamander.4
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