The West Wind, son of Astraeus and Eos the Dawn — brightening Zephyrus among the strong-hearted winds Hesiod sets beside Boreas and Notus, one of the three god-sent winds that bless men when they blow together.1
Hesiod names him first among the winds Eos bore to Astraeus: brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas headlong in his course, and Notus — born when a goddess mated in love with a god. Apollodorus compresses the brood to winds and stars; Hyginus adds Favonius as the Latin name of the same west wind.2
Later poets give him cult and story on the ground. Pausanias records an altar of Zephyrus beside a sanctuary of Demeter and her daughter near Athens, where the nymphs and the gods were worshipped together.3
Ovid, telling how Jupiter allotted the four quarters of the air to the wind-brothers, sends Zephyrus to the western shores warmed by the setting sun — Eurus to the dawn, Boreas to Scythia, and the south to Austor.4
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