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=== Other appearances === [[File:Pergamon-Altar - Pferde 3.jpg|thumb|The horses on the [[Pergamon Altar]], [[Pergamon Museum]] in Berlin.]] In the ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', he and his confirmed brothers live with their father Astraeus; Eurus serves nectar in cups when [[Demeter]] pays the family a visit.<ref name=":non">[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca01nonnuoft/page/216/mode/2up?view=theater 6.28]</ref> In the [[Pergamon Altar]], which depicts the battle of the gods against the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]], Eurus and the other three wind gods are shown in the shape of horses who pull Hera's chariot;<ref>''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' [http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73ac4ebff2462-9 617 (Venti)]</ref><ref>{{cite book | first = Max | last = Kunze | title = Der grosse Marmoraltar von Pergamon | trans-title = The Large Marble Altar of Pergamon | publisher = Staatliche Museem zu Berlin | language = German | location = Berlin | date = 1988 | pages = 23β24}}</ref> traces of their equine form are also found in [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]]'s works, where they pull Zeus's chariot instead.<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''[[Posthomerica|Fall of Troy]]'' [https://archive.org/details/falloftroy00quin/page/500/mode/2up?view=theater 12.189]</ref>
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