"daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia), the daughter of a Pallas, son of (otherwise unknown) Megamedes, which is possibly the same as this Pallas. Ovid uses the patronymic ""Pallantias"" or ""Pallantis"" as another name for Aurora, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Eos (""Dawn""), who was the sister of Selene; Ovid apparently regarding Aurora (or Eos) as the daughter of (or otherwise related to) Pallas. The ""Suda"" in discussing Athena's epithet ""Pallas"" suggests a possible derivation ""from brandishing (""pallein"") the spear"". The geographer Pausanias reports that Pellene, a city in Achaea, was claimed by its inhabitants to be named"
"the immortal but beautiful Aurora. Tithonus In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; ) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. Tithonus was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a ""rhapsode"", as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, ""circa"" 470–460 BC. Competitive singing, as in the ""Contest of Homer and Hesiod"", is also depicted vividly in the ""Homeric Hymn to Apollo"", and mentioned in the two ""Hymns to"
"peine la cime noire des montagnes"")"". Werner Sollors offers the interpretation that dawn and dusk are points in the 24-hour cycle that are neither night nor day, but both. The Classical goddess of the dawn, Eos to the Greeks, Roman Aurora, had myths associating her with Aethiopia, and was the mother of a black son, Memnon. Characters named Aurora, Aurore or Dawn in fiction on biracial themes—including ""The Quadroon"" by Mayne Reid, ""The Grandissimes"" by George Washington Cable, ""The Foxes of Harrow"" by Frank Yerby, and ""The Black Madonna"" by Muriel Spark—are symbolically situated between night (black) and day (white)."
"Hausos Hausos (Proto-Indo-European: *"""") is the reconstructed name for the Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn. Derivatives of her found throughout various Indo-European mythologies include the Greek goddess Eos, the Roman goddess Aurōra, the Vedic goddess Uṣás, the Lithuanian goddess Aušrinė (cf. Lith. ""aušrà"" ""dawn""), and possibly also the (West) Germanic goddess *""Austrǭ"" (Old English ""Ēostre"", Old High German *""Ōstara""). The Dawn Goddess is hypothesised to have been one of the most important deities to the Proto-Indo-Europeans, due to the consistency of her characterisation as well as the relevance of Ushas in the Rig Veda. Her attributes have not only been"
"at Amyklai and at Olympia, upon looking at statues and illustrations where Eos (Hemera) is present. Hemera In Greek mythology Hemera (; ""Day"") was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's ""De Natura Deorum"", where it is logically determined that ""Dies"" (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the"
"Greek poets by naming Aurora as the mother of the Anemoi (the Winds), who were the offspring of Astraeus, the father of the stars. Aurora appears most often in sexual poetry with one of her mortal lovers. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurora asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his"
"Eos and Cephalus. On an Etruscan mirror Thesan is shown carrying off a young man, whose name is inscribed as Tinthu</small>. The Roman equivalent of Eos is Aurora, also a cognate showing the characteristic Latin rhotacism. Dawn became associated in Roman cult with Matuta, later known as Mater Matuta. She was also associated with the sea harbors and ports, and had a temple on the Forum Boarium. On June 11, the Matralia was celebrated at that temple in honor of Mater Matuta; this festival was only for women during their first marriage. Eos In Greek mythology, Eos (; Ionic and"
"Hemera In Greek mythology Hemera (; ""Day"") was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's ""De Natura Deorum"", where it is logically determined that ""Dies"" (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the ""Fabulae"" mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister. Hemera was the female counterpart"
"Aurora Triumphans Aurora Triumphans () is a painting by Evelyn De Morgan, featuring the Roman goddess of dawn Aurora, that breaks the shackles of night. Aurora lies naked in the lower right corner, covered with carefully draped ropes of pink roses. Taking up two-thirds of the painting, there are three red-winged angels with trumpets and gold tunics. Set in opposition to Aurora, in the lower left corner is a dark-robed Night, who swirls away a black cloak. In 1886 the painting was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. The flowers strewn around Aurora and the pale glow of her"
"beauty that comes with being a child of Aphrodite. Through the kindness of Wonder Woman she was able to bring forth her inner beauty. Because of this she became a close supporter of the Amazon and would aid her when able. It was through Harmonia's help that Wonder Woman was able to defeat Ares before he could destroy the world. Harmonia was later killed during the ""War of the Gods"" storyline by her brother Phobos. Eros is the Greek counterpart to the Roman Cupid. He is also tied to the Greek gods Anteros and Erotes. Eros is the male equivalent"
"of Dawn"". The evening star they called """" (Latinized ""Hesperus"") (, the ""star of the evening""). By Hellenistic times, the ancient Greeks identified it as a single planet, which they named after their goddess of love, Aphrodite (""Αφροδίτη"") (Phoenician Astarte), a planetary name that is retained in modern Greek. Hesperos would be translated into Latin as Vesper and Phosphoros as Lucifer (""Light Bearer""). Venus was considered the most important celestial body observed by the Maya, who called it Chac ek, or Noh Ek<nowiki>'</nowiki>, ""the Great Star"". The Maya monitored the movements of Venus closely and observed it in daytime. The"
"Astraea Astraea, Astrea or Astria (; ""star-maiden"" or ""starry night""), in ancient Greek religion, is a daughter of Astraeus and Eos. She is the virgin goddess of justice, innocence, purity and precision. She is closely associated with the Greek goddess of justice, Dike (daughter of Zeus and Themis). She is not to be confused with Asteria, the goddess of the stars and the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. Astraea, the celestial virgin, was the last of the immortals to live with humans during the Golden Age, one of the old Greek religion's five deteriorating Ages of Man. According to Ovid,"
"Astrape and Bronte Astrape and Bronte (Ancient Greek: """" (""Astrapē"", lit. ""Lightning""); & """" (""Brontē"", lit. ""Thunder"") are twin goddessess in Greek Mythology. Astrape and Bronte are the twin goddessess of lightning and thunder; as members of Zeus' entourage, they were his attendants/handmaidens/shield bearers/shieldmaidens, and were given the task of carrying Zeus' thunderbolts, along with Pegasus. Astrape's Roman counterpart is Fulgora. Philostratus the Elder, ""Imagines"" 1. 14 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician 3rd century AD): [From a description of an ancient Greek painting depicting the death of Semele:] In the Apulian vase painting, Astrape (labelled) stands beside the throne of Zeus"
"her mother. Due to the dawn heralding the sun and inducing the daily routine, the Dawn Goddess is associated with instilling the cosmic order. Ushas is the arouser of Ṛta, while the role of Aušrinė as the maid of the sun renders her a moral example in Lithuanian traditions and helped her syncretism with the Virgin Mary. The Dawn Goddess was probably the original love and lust deity in Proto-Indo-European religion, an aspect maintained in nearly all reflexes but noticeably lost in later stages of Hellenic and Indu myth (Eos replaced by Aphrodite and Eros, Ushas replaced by Kamadeva). Notably,"
"toward a new energy, as heralded by the three angels blowing their trumpets. Thus her power (or ""triumph"", as suggested by the title) derives not from her mythological status, but from her role as a spiritualist metaphor."" Aurora Triumphans Aurora Triumphans () is a painting by Evelyn De Morgan, featuring the Roman goddess of dawn Aurora, that breaks the shackles of night. Aurora lies naked in the lower right corner, covered with carefully draped ropes of pink roses. Taking up two-thirds of the painting, there are three red-winged angels with trumpets and gold tunics. Set in opposition to Aurora, in"
"Orseis In Greek mythology, Orseïs (; Ancient Greek: Ὀρσηΐς, derived from ὄρσω - ""orsô"", ""to rouse, stir, awaken, excite or arise"") was the water-nymph (Naiad) of a spring in Thessalia, Greece, and the mythical ancestor of the Greeks. In some accounts, she was described as a mountain nymph (oread). It is uncertain whether Orseis was believed to be the daughter of Oceanus or the river-god of Thessalia, Peneios. There is even a possibility that she was the daughter of Zeus and Deino the Graeae. According to the ""Library"", Orseis married Hellen, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and brother of Pandora,"
"Electryone is akin to the word for ""amber"" (Ἠλέκτρα, Elektra), as in the amber color of sunrise (as opposed to sunset, implied by Helios being her father); naturally, either of which would be an appropriate name for a solar goddess. A marble tablet from the 3rd century BC found in Ialyssus contains an inscription about the regulations for visitors to the temple of Alectrona. Electryone In Greek mythology, Electryone (Ancient Greek: Ἠλεκτρυώνην) or Electryo or Alectrona (Doric form) was a daughter of Helios and Rhodos, and sister to the Heliadae. She died a virgin and was worshipped as a heroine"
"Harmonia In Greek mythology, Harmonia (; ) is the immortal goddess of harmony and concord. Her Roman counterpart is Concordia. Her Greek opposite is Eris, whose Roman counterpart is Discordia. There was also a nymph called Harmonia. According to Apollonius of Rhodes, she was a naiad of the Akmonian Wood who was mother of the Amazons. According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. By another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island. Almost always, Harmonia"
"Aura (mythology) In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura (, or Αὔρη) is a minor deity, whose name means ""breeze"". The plural form, Aurae () is sometimes found. According to Nonnus, Aura was the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus, makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the North-wind. ""Aurae"" was the title of a play by the Athenian comic poet Metagenes, who was contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato. Nonnus' tells the story of the rape of Aura, by Dionysus, in the final book"
"Latin word corresponding to Greek ""Phosphorus"" is ""Lucifer"". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose and poetry. Poets sometimes personify the star, placing it in a mythological context. Phosphorus (morning star) Phosphorus (Greek ""Phōsphoros"") is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (""Phaosphoros"") and Φαεσφόρος (""Phaesphoros"") are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects. This celestial object was named when stars and planets were not always distinguished with modern precision. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English,"
"Theia In Greek mythology, Theia (; , also rendered Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa ""wide-shining"", is a Titaness. Her brother/consort is Hyperion, a Titan and god of the sun, and together they are the parents of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). The name ""Theia"" alone means simply ""goddess"" or ""divine""; ""Theia Euryphaessa"" () brings overtones of extent (, ""eurys"", ""wide"", root: ) and brightness (, ""phaos"", ""light"", root: φαεσ-). Hesiod's ""Theogony"" gives her an equally primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). Robert Graves also relates that"
"""dawn"", a stem that also gave rise to Proto-Germanic ""*Austrō"", Old Germanic ""*Ōstara"" and Old English ""Ēostre / Ēastre"". This agreement leads to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess. There are no known temples, shrines or altars to Eos. However, Ovid seems to allude to the existence of at least two shrines of Eos, as he describes them in plural, albeit few, in the lines: Ovid may therefore have known of at least two such shrines. The dawn goddess Eos was almost always described with rosy fingers (ῥοδοδάκτυλος, ""rhododáktylos"") or rosy forearms (ῥοδόπηχυς, ""rhodópēkhys"") as she opened the gates"
"Aergia Aergia (Greek: , ""inactivity"") is a goddess in Greek mythology, a personification of sloth, idleness, indolence and laziness. She is the daughter of Aether and Gaia. She is said to guard the court of Hypnos in the Underworld. Aergia is the transliteration of the Latin Socordia, or Ignavia. She was transliterated to Greek because Hyginus mentioned her based on a Greek source, and thus can be considered as both a Greek and Roman goddess. Her opposite character is Horme, a goddess of effort. As the goddess of sloth she owns many servants who do her bidding from the mortal"
"Phosphorus (morning star) Phosphorus (Greek ""Phōsphoros"") is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. Φαοσφόρος (""Phaosphoros"") and Φαεσφόρος (""Phaesphoros"") are forms of the same name in some Greek dialects. This celestial object was named when stars and planets were not always distinguished with modern precision. Another Greek name for the Morning Star is Heosphoros (Greek ""Heōsphoros""), meaning ""Dawn-Bringer"". The form Eosphorus is sometimes met in English, as if from Ἠωσφόρος (""Ēōsphoros""), which is not actually found in Greek literature, but would be the form that Ἑωσφόρος would have in some dialects. As an adjective, the Greek word"
"Procris, the daughter of the King of Athens, are in love but are yet to be married (in this the opera differs from Ovid where they are already man and wife). Borée, Prince of Thrace, is Céphale's rival for Procris's hand and the gods help him press his claim, particularly L'Aurore (Aurora, the goddess of dawn) who is in love with Céphale and wants him for herself. When L'Aurore believes Céphale has rejected her, she conjures up demons to cast a spell so Procris will believe Céphale has been unfaithful to her. The spell works but the goddess has a"
"bring light to the whole earth. Another poem mentioning Tithonus was written by the Greek lyric poet Sappho. Eos (as ""Thesan"") and Tithonus (as ""Tinthu"" or ""Tinthun"") provided a pictorial motif inscribed or cast in low relief on the backs of Etruscan bronze hand-mirrors. The poem is a dramatic monologue in blank verse from the point of view of Tithonus. Unlike the original myth, it is Tithonus who asks for immortality, and it is Aurora, not Zeus, who grants this imperfect gift. As narrator, Tithonus laments his unnatural longevity, which separates him from the mortal world as well as from"
"evening. His name is sometimes conflated with the names for his brother, the personification of the planet as the ""morning star"" Eosphorus (Greek , ""bearer of dawn"") or Phosphorus (Ancient Greek: , ""bearer of light"", often translated as ""Lucifer"" in Latin), since they are all personifications of the same planet Venus. ""Heosphoros"" in the Greek Septuagint and ""Lucifer"" in Jerome's Latin Vulgate were used to translate the Hebrew ""Helel"" (Venus as the brilliant, bright or shining one), ""son of Shahar (god) (Dawn)"" in the Hebrew version of Isaiah 14:12. There is a tendency to conclude that the ancient Greeks thought"
"daybreak they produced many children who are associated with what occurs in the sky during twilight. They had many sons, the four Anemoi (""Winds""): Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus, and the five ""Astra Planeta"" (""Wandering Stars"", i.e. planets): Phainon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), Eosphoros/Hesperos (Venus), and Stilbon (Mercury). A few sources mention one daughter, Astraea, the goddess of innocence and, sometimes, justice. He is also sometimes associated with Aeolus, the Keeper of the Winds, since winds often swell up around dusk. Astraeus In Greek mythology, Astraeus or Astraios (; Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος means ""starry"""""") was an astrological deity and"
"Aurora (given name) Aurora is a feminine given name, originating from the name of the ancient Roman goddess of dawn Aurora. The variant used in the Russian language is """" (""Avrora""). While in use before the 20th century, it became more common after the Russian Revolution of 1917, due to the role cruiser ""Aurora"" played in the events. In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars, which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia. Diminutives of this"
"evening continued even into the Roman period. The Greek myth of Phaethon, whose name means ""Shining One"", has also been seen as similar to those of other gods who cyclically descend from the heavens, like Inanna and Attar. In classical mythology, Lucifer (""light-bringer"" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus as the morning star (s the evening star it was called Vesper), and it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. Lucifer was said to be ""the fabled son of Aurora and Cephalus, and father of Ceyx"". He was often presented in poetry as heralding"
"Owl of Athena In Greek mythology, a little owl (""Athene noctua"") traditionally represents or accompanies Athena, the virgin goddess of wisdom, or Minerva, her syncretic incarnation in Roman mythology. Because of such association, the bird — often referred to as the ""owl of Athena"" or the ""owl of Minerva"" — has been used as a symbol of knowledge, wisdom, perspicacity and erudition throughout the Western world. The reasons for the association of Athena and the owl are uncertain. Some mythographers, such as David Kinsley and Martin P. Nilsson, suggest that she may descend from a Minoan palace goddess associated with"
"Nyx Nyx (; , ""Nyks"", ""Night""; ) is the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty that she is feared by Zeus himself. In Hesiod's ""Theogony"", Nyx is born of Chaos. With Erebus (Darkness), Nyx gives birth to Aether (Brightness) and Hemera (Day). Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to Moros (Doom, Destiny),"
"I call"" (7.5) Urania Urania (; , ""Ourania""; meaning ""heavenly"" or ""of heaven"") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy. Urania was the daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne and also a great granddaughter of Uranus. Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus by Apollo or Amphimarus, son of Poseidon, and Hymenaeus also is said to have been a son of Urania. Urania is often associated with Universal Love and the Holy Spirit. Sometimes identified as the eldest of the divine sisters, Urania inherited Zeus' majesty and power and the beauty and grace of her mother"