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
Greek mythology in popular culture bodies have been named after elements of Greek mythology. The constellation of Scorpius represents the scorpion that attacked Hercules and the scorpions that frighted the horses when Phaëton was driving the sun-chariot; while Capricorn may represent Pan in a myth that tells of his escape from Typhon by jumping into the water while turning into an animal - the half in the water turned into a fish and the other half turned into a goat. 1108 Demeter, a main-belt asteroid discovered by Karl Reinmuth on May 31, 1929, is named after the Greek goddess of fruitful soil and agriculture. The