Oreithyia was once mortal. She used to play with her friends by the Ilisos river. She used to make Gods falling in love. It is said, she rejected Boreas, the north wind. So, he felt obliged to rape her, sadly violence was natural to him. Plato thinks this was misinterpreted, and she may have killed herself on the river’s rocks when a gust of northern wind came. Nevertheless, Oreithyia became immortal and her abduction gave life to some of the most exquisite paintings in the history of art.