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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 ...
Rosy-fingered Dawn ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς rhododáktulos Ēṓs "rosy-fingered Dawn" This phrase occurs frequently in the Homeric poems referring to Eos, the Titanic goddess of the dawn. Eos opened the gates of heaven so that Helios could ride his chariot across the sky every day.
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 .
In Homeric verse, for example, a phrase like rhododaktylos eos ("rosy fingered dawn") or oinops pontos ("winedark sea") occupy a certain metrical pattern that fits, in modular fashion, into the six-colon Greek hexameter, and aid the aioidos or bard in extempore composition.
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...
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 ...
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]