Classical compass winds mentioned only four winds. Hesiod (c. 700 BCE) in his "Theogony" (c. 735) gives the four winds mythical personification as gods, the Anemoi ("Ἄνεμοι"), the children of the Titan gods Astraeus (stars) and Eos (dawn). But Hesiod himself refers to only three winds by name – Boreas, Notos and Zephyrus – which he called the "good winds" and the "children of the morning" (engendering a little confusion, as it might be read as they were all easterly winds – although curious that Eurus is not among them). Hesiod refers to other "bad winds", but not by name. The Greek physician
HMS Boreas (1757) 1763. Captain Richard Hughes took over command in April 1763, serving off North Foreland until 1766. Captain Constantine Phipps succeed him in 1767, and was himself replaced by Captain Digby Dent the following year. Both commanded "Boreas" in the Channel. "Boreas" was surveyed for a final time on 23 May 1770. She was sold a month later on 29 June for the sum of £280. HMS Boreas (1757) HMS "Boreas" was a 28-gun "Coventry"-class sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Built in 1757, she was one of five frigates of the class built of fir rather than oak. "Boreas" saw