Anemoi

They were also sometimes depicted as horses kept in the stables of the storm god Aeolus, who provided Odysseus with the Anemoi in the Odyssey.

[4] Astraeus, the astrological deity (sometimes associated with Aeolus), and Eos/Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, were the parents of the Anemoi, according to the Greek poet Hesiod.

[citation needed] These gods had different names, but were otherwise very similar to their Greek counterparts, borrowing their attributes and being frequently conflated with them.

Ptolemy's world map listed 12 winds: Septentrio (N), Aquilo (NNE), Vulturnus (NE), Subsolanus (E), Eurus (SE), Euroauster (SSE), Austeronotus (S), Euronotus (SSW), Africus (SW), Zephirus (W), Eurus (NW), Circius (NNW).

Additionally, with yet another sister and lover, the harpy Podarge (also known as Celaeno), Zephyrus was said to be the father of Balius and Xanthus, Achilles' horses.

He was associated with the desiccating hot wind of the rise of Sirius after midsummer, was thought to bring the storms of late summer and early autumn, and was feared as a destroyer of crops.

The Auster winds are mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid Book II, lines 304–307: in segetem veluti cum flamma furentibus Austris incidit, aut rapidus montano flumine torrens sternit agros, sternit sata laeta boumque labores, praecipitesque trahit silvas Just as when a flame falls on the standing grain while the South Winds rage, or a rushing mountain stream lays low the fields, lays low the glad crops and labors of oxen, and drags down forests headlong.

Another Roman poet, Tibullus 1.1, lines 47–48, speaks of the pleasure of lying in bed on rainy winter days: aut, gelidas hibernus aquas cum fuderit Auster, securum somnos igne iuvante sequi or when the winter South Wind has poured out his cold waters, to fall asleep carefree with the help of a fire.

Eurus' Roman counterpart is Vulturnus, according to Pliny the Elder;[10] but for Aulus Gellius Volturnus was the equivalent of the southeast wind Euronotus.

Apeliotes (or Apheliotes; the name means 'from the (rising) sun') is the Greek deity of the southeast wind.

[17] As this wind was thought to cause a refreshing rain particularly beneficial to farmers, he is often depicted wearing high boots and carrying fruit, draped in a light cloth concealing some flowers or grain.

[21] Caurus is also one of the oldest Roman wind-deities, and numbered among the di indigetes ('indigenous gods'), a group of abstract and largely minor numinous entities.

The Roman poet Virgil writes when describing steppe winter weather near the Sea of Azov:[22] Semper hiemps, semper spirantes frigora cauri Always winter, always the northwest winds breathing cold Lips is the Greek deity of the southwest wind, often depicted holding the stern of a ship.