Boreas (painting) the HBO series "The Handmaid's Tale" -- the episode entitled "First Blood" -- a print of "Boreas" can be seen hanging in Commander Waterford's home. Boreas (painting) Boreas is an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style created in 1903 by John William Waterhouse. The painting is titled "Boreas", after the Greek god of the north wind and it shows a young girl buffeted by the wind. The 1904 Royal Academy notes described the subject of the painting as: "Boreas" was put up for sale in the mid-1990s after having been lost for 90 years - causing quite a sensation in
Pygmy (Greek mythology) Monstrous Races of Men Are Derived From the Stock of Adam or Noah's Sons." Later Greek geographers and writers attempted to place the Pygmies in a geographical context. Sometimes they were located in far India, at other times near the Ethiopians of Africa. The Pygmy bush tribes of central Africa were so named after the Greek mythological creatures by European explorers in the 19th century. From Pliny's Natural History: From "The Life of Apollonius of Tyana" by Flavius Philostratus: From "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville": Pygmy (Greek mythology) The Pygmies ( "Pygmaioi", from the adjective πυγμαῖος from πυγμή "pygmē",