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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
Eos is usually described with rosy fingers or rosy forearms as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise: [32] the singer in the Homeric Hymn to Helios calls her ῥοδόπηχυν , "rosy-armed", as does Sappho, [33] who also describes her as having golden arms [34] and golden sandals; [35] vases depict her rosy-fingered, with golden ...
Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of Okeanos, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her. — (19.1) But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy -fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector .
*H₂éwsōs or *H a éusōs (lit. ' the dawn ') is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the dawn goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1]*H₂éwsōs is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her characterization in subsequent traditions as well as the importance of the goddess Uṣas in ...
Much of the surviving text of the poem is occupied by an extended simile which compares the Lydian woman to the "rosy-fingered moon". [22] This is an adaptation of the common Homeric epithet "rosy-fingered Dawn". [23] Margaret Williamson interprets this metaphor as presenting the Lydian woman as a goddess. [24]
Eos, the goddess of the dawn, begs Zeus to return her son; the king of the gods doesn't bring Memnon back to life, but he grants his mother a grace, that she will be able to see him alive and to caress him with his rosy fingers every day, when she opens the doors of heaven so as her brother Helios can begin his journey. That will last just a ...
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The Proto-Indo-European reconstructed goddess of the dawn is *H₂éwsōs.Her name was reconstructed using a comparative method on the basis of the names of Indo-European goddesses of the dawn, e.g. Greek Eos, Roman Aurora, or Vedic Ushas; similarly, on the basis of the common features of the goddesses of the dawn, the features of the Proto-Indo-European goddess were also reconstructed.