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Ancient

Alcman

fr. 5 Campbell

... [p. 393] After that [what?], ancient Poros and Tekmor11: Tekmor came into being after Poros ...

And the third, darkness: since neither sun nor moon had come into being yet, but matter was still undifferentiated. So (at the same moment?) there came into being Poros and Tekmor and darkness.¹⁵

¹⁵ This explanation seems wrong-headed: darkness is third not to Poros and Tekmor but to ‘day and moon’, as is shown by the longer quotation which follows.

[p. 395] Day and moon and the third, darkness (as far as) flashing(s)¹⁶: ‛day’ does not mean simply ‛day’, but contains the idea of the sun. Previously there was only darkness, and afterwards, when it had been differentiated, (light came into being).

¹⁶ Perhaps of the stars.

Apollodorus

1.9.4

Deion reigned over Phocis and married Diomede, daughter of Xuthus; and there were born to him a daughter, Asterodia, and sons, Aenetus, Actor, Phylacus, and Cephalus, who married Procris, daughter of Erechtheus¹1 But afterwards Dawn fell in love with him and carried him off.

¹ Compare Apollod. 2.4.7, Apollod. 3.15.1. As to the love of Dawn or Day for Cephalus, see Hes. Th. 986ff.; Paus. 1.3.1; Ant. Lib. 41; Ov. Met. 7.700-713; Hyginus, Fab. 189, 270.

3.14.3

Herse had by Hermes a son Cephalus, whom Dawn loved and carried off,¹

¹ ... Euripides tells how "Dawn with her lovely light once snatched up Cephalus to the gods, all for love"（Eur. Hipp. 454ff.）

Bacchylides

Victory Odes 7

Radiant daughter² of Time and Night,

ὦ λιπαρὰ θύγατερ Χρόνου τε κ[αί

Νυκτός,

² Day

Cicero

De Natura Deorum

3.44

And if so, the parents of Caelus, the Aether and the Day, must be held to be gods, and their brothers and sisters, whom the ancient genealogists name Love, Guile, Fear, Toil, Envy, Fate, Old Age, Death, Darkness, Misery, Lamentation, Favour, Fraud, Obstinacy, the Parcae, the Daughters of Hesperus, the Dreams: all of these are fabled to be the children of Erebus and Night.’

Caeli quoque parentes di habendi sunt, Aether et Dies, eorumque fratres et sorores, qui a genealogis antiquis sic nominantur, Amor Dolus Metus¹ Labor Invidentia Fatum Senectus Mors Tenebrae Miseria Querella Gratia Fraus Pertinacia Parcae Hesperides Somnia, quos omnis Erebo et Nocte natos ferunt.’

3.56

One Mercury has Sky [Caelo] for father and the Day for mother;

Euphorion

fr. 66 Lightfoot [fr. 103 Powell]

66 Σ PQT Od. 5.121, i. p. 255.13 Dindorf

66 Scholiast on Homer, Odyssey

For Day [Hemera] fell in love with him (sc. Orion) and snatched him from Tanagra to Delos, where he saw Oupis as she carried sheaves and wanted to force her to his will. The goddess was angry at this and slew him, as Euphorion relates.⁹⁴

94 Is “the goddess” Day, acting out of jealousy (in Od. 5.121 Dawn abducts, but does not kill, Orion)?

Euripides

Hippolytus

454–456

know too that Dawn, goddess of lovely light, once abducted Cephalus to heaven for love’s sake.

Hesiod

Theogony

123–125 [Most]

From Chasm, Erebos and black Night came to be; and then Aether and Day came forth from Night, who conceived and bore them after mingling in love with Erebos.

371–374

Theia, overpowered in love by Hyperion, gave birth to great Helius (Sun) and gleaming Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn), who shines for all those on the earth and for the immortal gods who possess the broad sky.

746–757

(746) In front of these, Iapetus’ son holds the broad sky with his head and tireless hands, standing immovable, where Night and Day passing near greet one another as they cross the great bronze threshold. The one is about to go in and the other is going out the door, and never does the house hold them both inside, but always the one goes out from the house and passes over the earth, while the other in turn remaining inside the house waits for the time of her own departure, until it comes. The one holds much-seeing light for those on the earth, but the other holds Sleep in her hands, the brother of Death—deadly Night, shrouded in murky cloud.

984–985

To Tithonus, Eos bore bronze-helmeted Memnon, the king of the Ethiopians, and lord Emathion. And to Cephalus she bore a splendid son, powerful Phaethon,

Homer

5.122

Thus, when rosy-fingered Dawn [Eos] took to herself Orion,

Hyginus

Fabulae

Theogony 1–2

[1] From Mist came Chaos. From Chaos and Mist came Night, Day, Darkness, and Ether. ...

[2] From Ether and Day came Earth, Sky and Sea.

Latin:

[1] Ex Caligine Chaos: ex Chao et Caligine Nox Dies Erebus Aether. ...

[2] Ex Aethere et Die Terra Caelum Mare.

270

...

Cephalus son of Pandion, whom Aurora loved.

Ovid

Metamorphoses

7.700–704

It was in the second month after our marriage rites. I was spreading my nets to catch the antlered deer, when from the top of ever-blooming Hymettus the golden goddess of the dawn [Aurora], having put the shades to flight, beheld me and carried me away, against my will:

Pausanias

1.3.1

[Describing the Royal Portico at Athens:] On the tiling of this portico are images of baked earthenware, Theseus throwing Sciron into the sea and Day carrying away Cephalus, who they say was very beautiful and was ravished by Day, who was in love with him.

3.18.12

[Describing the throne of Apollo at Amyclae:] There is Cephalus, too, carried off by Day because of his beauty.

5.22.2

[At Olympia] By the side of what is called the Hippodamium is a semicircular stone pedestal, and on it are Zeus, Thetis, and Day entreating Zeus on behalf of her [their?] children. These are on the middle of the pedestal. There are Achilles and Memnon, one at either edge of the pedestal, representing a pair of combatants in position.

Modern

Gantz

p. 3

... Akousilaos [calls Eros the offspring] of Erebos and Nyx or Aither and Nyx (2F6) ...

p. 4

Next, and definitely born from Chaos, arise Erebos (Darkness) and black Nyx (Night) (Th 123-25). ... This Erebos does, however, mate with Nyx (the first sexual union) to produce Aither (Brightness) and Hemere (Day), ...

Grimal

s.v. Hemera

(Ἡμέρα) The personification of the Day. She was considered as a feminine deity (the Greek word for day is feminine) and was the daughter of Erebus and the Night, and sister of Aether (See AETHER and URANUS). [p. 486: Hesiod. Theog. 124; 748ff.; Hyg. Fab. pref. 1; Rose.]

s.v. Uranus

... Other poems make him [Uranus] the son of AETHER but this tradition (which goes back to the Titanomachia) does not name a mother. She was doubtless Hemera, the female personification of Day.

Hard

p. 24

[Erebus] fathered two children by Night, a daughter, DAY (or HEMERA in Greek), and a corresponding brother, AITHER, who personifies brightness as manifested in the bright upper air. ...

p. 46

Hemera, Day personified, was often identified with Eos ... even if she is a separate being on the Theogony ...

p. 562

Euphorion states that Hemera (Day, here to be identified with Eos) took him [Orion] from Tanagra when she carried him away.^{75 [... Euphorion fr. 103 Powell]}

Tripp

s.v. Hemera

Day, and the goddess of day. Hemera, who was born, together with Aether, from Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), regularly emerged from Tartarus as Nyx entered it, and returned ans Nyx was leaving. Since Eos (Dawn) was thought of as accompanying the Sun as well as heralding his rising, she tended to usurp the functions of Hemera and was often identified with her. [Hesiod, Theogony 124-125, 746-757; Pausanias 1.3.1.]