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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 ...
Crepuscular rays, sometimes colloquially referred to as god rays, are sunbeams that originate when the Sun appears to be just above or below a layer of clouds, during the twilight period. [1] Crepuscular rays are noticeable when the contrast between light and dark is most obvious. Crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum, meaning ...
But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy-fingered, then gathered the folk about the pyre of glorious Hector. — (24.776) Ovid's Heroides (16.201-202), Paris names his well-known family members, among which Aurōra's lover as follows:
Walters Art Museum 48.2230 CC0 1.0 Before the next day's battle, so great is the divine love towards Memnon that Zeus makes all the other Olympians promise not to interfere in the fighting. In battle, Memnon kills Nestor 's son, Antilochos , after Antilochos has killed Memnon's dear comrade, Aesop .
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.
Gilbert, Robert A. Golden Dawn Scrapbook - The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order (Weiser, 1998, ISBN 1-57863-037-1) Hopking, C.J.M., The Practical Kabbalah Guidebook (Sterling, 2001, ISBN 0-8069-3121-3) Howe, Ellic. The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923 (Weiser, 1978, ISBN 0-87728-369-9)
Aurora, the lovely precursor of morning, who "opens with her rosy fingers the gates of the east", is seen seated on a bank on the confines of a grove, with her arms round the waist of her beloved Cephalus: this tender restraint on his departure, is seconded by a sweet smile beaming in her upraised countenance; but although he feels the gentle pressure, and makes no effort to escape from it, he ...