Editing Zephyrus (section)

== In ancient culture ==
=== Iconography ===
[[File:Pergamon-Altar - Pferde 3.jpg|thumb|The horses on the Pergamon Altar, Berlin.]]

Like all the other wind gods, Zephyrus is represented in ancient Greek art with wings,<ref>{{cite book | first = John | last = Boardman | title = The Athenian Red-Figure Vases: The Archaic Period | publisher = Thames & Hudson | location = London, UK | isbn = 9780500201435 | date = 1985 | page = 230}}</ref> due to which he is sometimes hard to distinguish from Eros, another winged youthful god, though tellingly unlike Zephyrus Eros is not depicted pursuing males.{{sfn|Gantz|1996|page=[https://archive.org/details/early-greek-myth-a-guide-timothy-gantz/page/94/mode/2up?view=theater 94]}} In ancient vases, he is most commonly pursuing the young Hyacinthus or already holding him in his arms in an erotic and sexual manner; on a red-figure vase in the [[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]], Zephyrus's erect penis thrusts into the folds of the young man's clothes as they fly together,{{sfn|Dover|1989|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fstPVlTPBRQC&pg=PA98 98]}} while vase 95.31 from the same museum depicts intercrural sex between the two.{{sfn|Beazley|1918|page=[https://archive.org/details/atticredfigured00beazgoog/page/n114/mode/2up?view=theater 98]}} Various other vases also show scenes of Zephyrus grabbing and seizing Hyacinthus.{{sfn|Dover|1989|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fstPVlTPBRQC&pg=PA75 75]}}{{sfn|Dover|1989|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=fstPVlTPBRQC&pg=PA93 93]}}

On the [[Tower of the Winds]], a clocktower/horologion in the Roman agora of Athens, the frieze depicts Zephyrus alongside seven more of the wind gods above the sundials. Zephyrus is presented as a beardless youth carrying a cloak full of flowers.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Noble | first1 = Joseph V. | last2 = de Solla Price | first2 = Derek J. | title = The Water Clock in the Tower of the Winds | journal = [[American Journal of Archaeology]] | date = 1968 | volume = 72 | issue = 4 | pages = 345{{ndash}}355 | doi = 10.2307/503828 | jstor = 503828 | s2cid = 193112893 | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/503828  | issn = 0002-9114| url-access = subscription }}</ref>

On the [[Pergamon Altar]], which depicts the battle of the gods against the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]] (known as the Gigantomachy), Zephyrus and the other three wind gods are shown in the shape of horses who pull the chariot of the goddess Hera in the eastern frieze of the monument;<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 = 23–24}}</ref> the equine forms of the Anemoi are also found in [[Quintus Smyrnaeus]]'s works, where the four brothers 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>

=== Cult ===
Ancient cult of the wind gods is attested in several ancient Greek states.{{sfn|Farnell|1909|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56576/page/415/mode/2up?view=theater 416]}} According to the geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the Winds were jointly worshipped in the town of [[Titani|Titane]], in [[Sicyon]], where the local priest offered sacrifice to them,{{sfn|Farnell|1909|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.56576/page/417/mode/2up?view=theater 417]}}<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.12.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.12.1]</ref> and in [[Coroneia (Boeotia)|Coronea]], a town in [[Boeotia]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D34%3Asection%3D3 9.34.3]</ref> It is also known that the citizens of [[Laciadae]] in [[Attica]] had erected an altar for Zephyrus.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.37.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 1.37.2]</ref> According to a fragment doubtfully attributed to the fifth-century BC poet [[Bacchylides]], a [[Rhodes|Rhodian]] farmer named Eudemus built a temple in honour of the west wind god, in gratitude for his help.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Silver | first1 = Isidore | date = 1945 | title = Du Bellay and Hellenic Poetry | url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/459286 | journal = [[Modern Language Association|PMLA]] | publisher = [[Cambridge University Press]] | volume = 60 | issue = 4 | jstor = 459286 | pages = 949–50 | doi = 10.2307/459286 | s2cid = 163633516 | access-date = May 25, 2023| url-access = subscription }}</ref>