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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: [33] the singer in the Homeric Hymn to Helios calls her ῥοδόπηχυν , "rosy-armed", as does Sappho, [34] who also describes her as having golden arms [35] and golden sandals; [36] 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.
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 ...
In Roman mythology, Aurōra renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the Sun. Her parentage was flexible: for Ovid, she could equally be Pallantis, signifying the daughter of Pallas, [4] or the daughter of Hyperion. [5] She has two siblings, a brother (Sol, the Sun) and a sister (Luna, the Moon).
The Odyssey (/ ˈɒdɪsi /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, romanized: Odýsseia) [2][3] is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Iliad, the Odyssey is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of ...
*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 ...
The two threads are further linked by the placement of the Greek word brododactylos ("rosy-fingered") applied by Homer to the dawn but given here in the dialect of Sappho and used by her in a poem of unrequited love. These images are often intimately associated with the poet's close observation of the natural world as it imposes itself on the ...