Notus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Astraeus(parent),Eos(parent),Boreas(sibling),Eurus(sibling),Zephyrus(sibling)— Marriage

  Astraeus and Eos are the parents of the four Anemoi: Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus, and Eurus, the gods who control the directional winds.

Serves

• Aeolus

  Aeolus serves as keeper and warden of the winds by Zeus's appointment, holding authority over Notus and the other Anemoi, imprisoning or releasing them at the gods' command.

Member of

• Anemoi

  The Anemoi are the four wind gods: Boreas (north), Zephyrus (west), Notus (south), and Eurus (east), each governing a cardinal direction's wind.

Equivalent to

• Auster(Roman)

  Notus and Auster are the Greek and Roman gods of the south wind. Virgil uses Auster and Notus interchangeably in the Aeneid to describe the rain-bearing south wind.

Associated with

• Aeneas

  In Virgil's Aeneid, Notus was among the winds released by Aeolus at Juno's command to devastate Aeneas's fleet as it sailed from Sicily toward Italy.

• Deucalion

  Notus brought the rains of the great deluge that drowned the world, from which only Deucalion and Pyrrha survived by floating to Mount Parnassus in a chest.