Editing Zephyrus (section)

== Family ==
[[File:Zephyr_and_Flora,_c.1720,_by_Antonio_Corradini,_V&A.JPG|thumb|left|''Zephyr and Flora'', c. 1720, by Antonio Corradini, [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].]]

=== Parents ===
Zephyrus, like the rest of the wind gods [[Anemoi]] ([[Boreas (god)|Boreas]], [[Eurus]] and [[Notus]]) was said to be the son of [[Eos]], goddess of the dawn, by her husband and first cousin [[Astraeus]], a minor god related to the stars.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 378], [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.2.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 1.2.3]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/216/mode/2up?view=theater 6.28]</ref> The poet [[Ovid]] dubs the four of them 'the Astraean brothers' in reference to their paternity.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 14.545</ref>

He is thus brother to the rest of Eos and Astraeus's children, namely the five star-gods and the justice goddess [[Astraea]]. His mortal half-brothers include [[Memnon]] and [[Emathion]], sons of his mother Eos by the Trojan prince [[Tithonus]]. The Athenian playwright [[Aeschylus]] in his fifth-century BC play ''[[Oresteia#Agamemnon|Agamemnon]]'' writes that Zephyrus is the son of the goddess [[Gaia]] (the mother earth). The father, if one exists at all, is not named.<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[Oresteia#Agamemnon|Agamemnon]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0004%3Acard%3D681 690]</ref>

=== Consorts and offspring ===
[[File:Oberhausen - Gasometer - Der schöne Schein - Primavera (Botticelli) 03 ies.jpg|thumb|250px|Zephyrus with Chloris in ''[[Primavera (Botticelli)|Primavera]]'' by [[Sandro Botticelli]], ca. 1470s–1480s, oil on canvas.]]

In Greek tradition, Zephyrus became the consort of [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]], the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. According to [[Nonnus]], a late-antiquity poet, together they became the parents of [[Pothos (mythology)|Pothos]],<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca03nonnuoft/page/396/mode/2up?view=theater 47.340]</ref> the god of desire, and according to [[Alcaeus of Mytilene]] (a six-century BC poet from the island of [[Lesbos]]), of [[Eros]] as well, though he is more commonly a son of [[Ares]] and [[Aphrodite]].<ref>[[Alcaeus of Mytilene]] fragment 149 [Page, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=4uhBArQUknYC&pg=PA82 82].]</ref> In the same passage, Zephyrus is described as having golden hair.

By the [[Harpy]] [[Podarge]] (who is Iris's sister) he became the father of [[Balius and Xanthus]], the two fast, talking horses that were given to [[Achilles]],{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=s.v. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DZ%3Aentry+group%3D2%3Aentry%3Dzephyrus-bio-1 Zephyrus]}}{{sfn|Grimal|1987|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/73/mode/2up?view=theater Balius]}} when he mated with her while she was grazing on a meadow near the banks of the Ocean, implied in the form of a mare.{{sfn|Hard|2004|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA58 58]}} [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]] also says that by a Harpy he had [[Arion (horse)|Arion]], the talking horse.<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica|Fall of Troy]]'' [https://archive.org/details/falloftroy00quin/page/208/mode/2up?view=theater 4.569]</ref> Like with the case of Eros, Arion's more common parentage is different, in this case the Olympians [[Demeter]] and [[Poseidon]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Areion | date = 2006 | access-date = May 28, 2023 | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/areion-e133590 | last = Graf | first = Fritz | location = Columbus, Ohio | translator = Christine F. Salazar | doi= 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e133590 | publisher = Brill Reference Online | encyclopedia = [[Brill's New Pauly]] | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider| url-access = subscription }}</ref>

In some sources Zephyrus has a son named [[Karpos|Carpus]] ("fruit") by a nymph [[Horae|Hora]], who drowned in the [[Büyük Menderes River|Maeander]] river when the wind drove a wave right into his face, driving his lover [[Kalamos|Calamus]] into despair, who went on to take his life.<ref>[[Servius (grammarian)|Servius]] ''On Eclogues'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0091%3Apoem%3D5%3Acommline%3D48 5.48]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]''  [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/384/mode/2up?view=theater 11.385–481]</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | translator = Christine F. Salazar | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/carpus-e609540?s | date = 2006 | access-date = April 14, 2023 | first1 = Alexandra | last1 = Frey | location = Hamburg | first2 = Menso | last2 = Folkerts | publisher = Brill Reference Online | encyclopedia= [[Brill's New Pauly]] | title = Carpus | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e609540 | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider| url-access = subscription }}</ref>{{sfn|Forbes Irving|1990|pages=278–279}} According to [[Pseudo-Oppian]], he also became the genitor of tigers by an unnamed consort.<ref>[[Pseudo-Oppian|Oppian]], ''Cynegetica'' [https://archive.org/details/oppiancolluthust00oppiuoft/page/34/mode/2up?view=theater 1.320], [https://archive.org/details/oppiancolluthust00oppiuoft/page/142/mode/2up?view=theater 3.350]</ref>