Who was the Greek god of the north wind?

The Greek god of the north wind was Boreas.

Boreas personified the cold northern wind and was associated with storms and winter. He belonged to the Anemoi, the group of directional wind gods. His siblings included Zephyrus, the west wind; Eurus, the east or southeast wind; and Notus, the south wind. This makes the wrong options in the quiz names of other winds rather than alternate answers.

Greek artists commonly portrayed Boreas as a powerful, winged, bearded man with a billowing cloak. His traditional home was Thrace, a region north of the Greek heartland whose severe weather suited his character. The Romans identified him with Aquilo, and the English word “boreal,” meaning northern, ultimately reflects his name.

Boreas’s most famous myth concerns Oreithyia, an Athenian princess whom he carried away after she rejected his courtship. He was also linked with horses and was said in one story to father twelve exceptionally swift colts. Ancient writers sometimes treated him as a northeast wind, but the standard Greek identification is the north wind.