Hemera
| Hemera | |
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Personification of day | |
 Relief of Hemera from the Aphrodisias Sebasteion | |
| Abode | Sky and Tartarus |
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| Parents | Erebus and Nyx |
| Siblings | Aether |
| Consort | Aether |
| Equivalents | |
| Roman equivalent | Dies |
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Mythology
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx (Night) entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left:[8]
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.[9]
Roman counterpart Dies
Hemera's Roman counterpart
Identified with Eos
Although Eos (Dawn) is a separate entity in Hesiod's Theogony—where she is the daughter of the
Worship
While there is little evidence of Hemera having received a cult in ancient times, archaeological evidence has proven the existence of a small shrine to Hemera and Helios, the god of the sun, on the island of Kos.[20]
Notes
- ^ Tripp, s.v. Hemera; Grimal, s.v. Hemera.
- ^ Hard, p. 24; Gantz, p. 4; Hesiod, Theogony 123–125.
- ^ Bacchylides, Victory Odes 7.
- ^ West 2002, p. 109 says that the Titanomachy was "composed in the late seventh century at the earliest".
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Uranus; Eumelus fr. 1 (West 2003, pp. 222–225); compare Callimachus, fr. 498. According to Grimal the mother was "doubtless" Hemera, compare with Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44, which has Aether and Dies as the parents of Caelus (Sky).
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Odes 2.32
- ^ Scholia on Pindar's Olympian Odes 2.58.
- ^ Tripp, s.v. Hemera.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 748–757.
- Fabulae Theogony 1 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95).
- ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44.
- Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95).
- ^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.56.
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 371–374, 984–987.
- ^ Hard, p. 46; Tripp, s.v. Hemera.
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- ^ Pausanias, 5.22.2.
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 5.122.
- ^ Hard, p. 562; Euphorion fr. 66 Lightfoot [= fr. 103 Powell].
- ^ Farnell, p. 419.
References
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- Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume IV: Bacchylides, Corinna, .
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- Clarendon Press Oxford, 1909. Internet Archive.
- Gantz, Timothy, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes: ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 9780631201021.
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360. Google Books.
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- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6.
- Lightfoot, J. L., Hellenistic Collection: Philitas, Alexander of Aetolia, Hermesianax, Euphorion, Parthenius, edited and translated by J. L. Lightfoot, .
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- Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tripp, Edward, Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology, Thomas Y. Crowell Co; First edition (June 1970). ISBN 069022608X.
- JSTOR 3246207.
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External links
Media related to Hemera at Wikimedia Commons- HEMERA from the Theoi Project
