Editing Eurus (section)

== Attributes and family ==
Eurus is traditionally the god of the east or south-east wind.{{sfn|Grimal|1987|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/157/mode/2up?view=theater Eurus]}}{{sfn|Smith|1873|loc=s.v. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DU%3Aentry+group%3D5%3Aentry%3Dventi-bio-1 Venti]}} He has been both described as rain-bringing and a dry type of wind.<ref name=":brill">{{cite encyclopedia | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e406210 | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/eurus-e406210 | last1 = Hünemörder | first1 = Christian | publisher = Brill Reference Online | encyclopedia = [[Brill's New Pauly]] | last2 = Bloch | first2 = René | location = Hamburg, Berne | title = Eurus | date = 2006 | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider | translator = Christine F. Salazar | access-date = April 13, 2023}}</ref>

Eurus, unlike the three other principal wind gods, is often skipped by ancient authors. He is the only one not to be mentioned by [[Hesiod]] at all, who makes the three beneficial winds the children of [[Eos]] (the dawn goddess) and her husband [[Astraeus]], and says that all the other, non-beneficial for humanity winds are the sons of [[Typhon]].{{sfn|Grimal|1987|loc=s.v. [https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofclas00grim/page/157/mode/2up?view=theater Eurus]}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url = https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/zephyrus-e12216400 | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e12216400 | encyclopedia = [[Brill's New Pauly]] | last = Rausch | first = Sven | location = Hamburg | title = Zephyrus | date = 2006 | editor-first1 = Hubert | editor-last1 = Cancik | editor-first2 = Helmuth | editor-last2 = Schneider | translator = Christine F. Salazar | access-date = April 13, 2023 | publisher = Brill Reference Online}}</ref> Instead of Eurus, Hesiod only speaks of "Argestes" for the fourth, which could also refer to [[Apeliotes]] occasionally (the god of the southeast wind).{{sfn|Kerenyi|1951|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.7346/page/n231/mode/2up?view=theater 205]}} Similarly, he is the only one among the four who does not have an ''[[Orphic Hymn]]'' sang in his honour.

It is thus [[Nonnus]], a fifth-century AD author from [[Panopolis]] who made Eurus one of the children of Eos and Astraeus in his ''[[Dionysiaca]]''.<ref name=":non" />