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In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (/ ˈ iː ɒ s /; Ionic and Homeric Greek Ἠώς Ēṓs, Attic Ἕως Héōs, "dawn", pronounced [ɛːɔ̌ːs] or ; Aeolic Αὔως Aúōs, Doric Ἀώς Āṓs) [1] is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver ...
Tithonus has been taken by the allegorist to mean ‘a grant of a stretching-out’ (from teinō and ōnė), a reference to the stretching-out of his life, at Eos’s plea; but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day [2] and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.
Like Roman Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, or her earlier PIE ancestor, also shares several elements with the love goddess Aphrodite , perhaps signifying Eos's influence on her or otherwise a common origin for the two.
In Greek mythology, Hemera (/ ˈ h ɛ m ər ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἡμέρα, romanized: Hēmérā, lit. ' Day ' [hɛːméraː] ) was the personification of day. According to Hesiod , she was the daughter of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the sister of Aether .
Cephalus and Eos, by Nicolas Poussin (circa 1630) Aurora and Cephalus, 1733, by François Boucher. In Greek mythology, Cephalus (/ ˈ s ɛ f əl ə s /; Ancient Greek: Κέφαλος Kephalos) is a Aeolian prince, the son of Deion/Deioneos, ruler of Phocis, and Diomede, and grandson of Aeolus. [1] [2] He was one of the lovers of the dawn ...
The dawn goddess Eos appears prominently in early Greek poetry and mythology. The Roman dawn goddess Aurora is a reflection of the Greek Eos, but the original Roman dawn goddess may have continued to be worshipped under the cultic title Mater Matuta . [ 129 ]
In Greek mythology, Astraeus (/ ə ˈ s t r iː ə s /) or Astraios (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος, romanized: Astraîos, lit. 'starry' [ 1 ] ) is an astrological god. Some also associate him with the winds, as he is the father of the four Anemoi (wind deities), by his wife, the dawn-goddess Eos .
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