Homer
thought that all the winds were
under the control of
Aeolus;
he mentions four including
Euros
(East), while Hesiod spoke of
three winds,
Boreas,
Zephyros, and
Notos
(South)
all of them the children of
Astreus
and Eos
(Dusk and Dawn).

The ‘Tower of
the Winds’ in Athens (click image) shows eight winds in
human form on its eight faces — following the compass
points clockwise they are:
Boreas,
Kaikias,
Apēliōtēs,
Euros,
Notos,
Lips,
Zephyros
and
Skīrōn.
Sacrifices were made to the winds
where and when necessary, they were
usually animals — black ones for evil
winds, white ones for good winds.
Sometimes sacrifices were human; the sacrifice of Iphigenaia by Agamemnon, her own father, for favourable winds before the campaign to Troy for the recovery of kidnapee Helen of Sparta, his brother's wife, by Paris is one of mention.
