• Elguja Maghradze

Lamentation (Elguja Maghradze, Two Novels, Tbilisi, 1984)

• Prose

“The use of the Greek names of the winds, well known in the Greek mythology and writing […]

Zephyr for the Greek is the wind of the North or North-West, Phoenix – the South-Western wind – Phoenician wind, Boreas – the cold wind of the North, we encounter it as early as the “Iliad” of Homer […]

Notus – is the Southern counterpart of Boreas, Caicias – blows from the North-East, Apilus –  the East, Argestes – is also the name of the wind.  Thrace – the wind blowing from the North-West for the Greeks, Levanto is also the wind’s name. (pg. 288)

• Greek writing ( )
• Homer ( )
• Iliad ( )
• Greek mythology ( )
• Greek ( )
• Zephyrus ( )
• Phoenix ( )
• Argestes
• Apilus
• Caicias
• Boreas ( )
• Thrace ( )
• Libonotus
• Ergastes