Anemoi four Anemoi and several minor wind gods are involved in the defense of Mount Olympus against Kronos (the Titan Cronus), the first series's chief antagonist. Both the Greek and the Roman forms of the Anemoi appear in Riordan's second series. Boreas is a central character in "The Lost Hero", and his children Khione, Calais, and Zetes continue to have important roles throughout the series. He resides in Montreal, and is described as "sturdily built...with dark purple wings" when in his Greek form, and as "taller and thinner" when Roman. "Notus/Auster appears in "The House of Hades" as a counselor of
Greek mythology in popular culture Fairy Book". In C. S. Lewis's retelling of Cupid and Psyche, "Till We Have Faces", the narrator is Psyche's sister. Roberta Gellis's "Shimmering Splendor" is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche. The Italian poet Dante Alighieri used characters from the legend of Troy in his Divine Comedy, placing the Greek heroes in hell to show his contempt for their actions. Poets of the Renaissance began to widely write about Greek mythology, and "elicited as much praise for borrowing or reworking" such material as they did for truly original work. The poet John Milton used figures from classical mythology to "further