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In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos (; Ionic and Homeric Greek Ēṓs, Attic Héōs, "dawn", or ; Aeolic Aúōs, Doric Āṓs) is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the night. In Greek tradition and poetry, she is characterized as a goddess with a great sexual appetite, who took numerous human lovers for her own satisfaction and bore them several children. Like her Roman counterpart Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, o
Eos was the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn, who was believed to rise each morning from the edge of the river Oceanus to bring light and disperse darkness across the sky. She is notable in Greek tradition for her numerous romantic relationships with human lovers and for representing a continuity of much older Indo-European religious beliefs about a divine personification of dawn.
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Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- Eos
- Deity.image
- A terracotta lekanis dish depicting dawn eos on chariot with four horses eros a woman and a swan late 4th century metropolitan museum of art cropped detail eos.jpg
- Deity.image_upright
- 1.2
- Deity.caption
- Eos in her four-horse-drawn chariot, terracotta red-figure lekanis vase, late 4th century BC, Canosa, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Deity.god_of
- Personification of the Dawn
- Deity.script_name
- Ancient Greek
- Deity.abode
- Sky
- Deity.symbol
- Saffron, cloak, roses, tiara
- Deity.color
- Red, white, pink, gold, saffron
- Deity.animals
- Cicada, horse
- Deity.mount
- A chariot drawn by two horses
- Deity.consort
- Astraeus, Orion, Cephalus, Cleitus, Ares, Tithonus
- Deity.parents
- Hyperion and Theia
- Deity.siblings
- Helios and Selene
- Deity.children
- The Anemoi (Boreas, Eurus, Notus and Zephyrus), the stars, Memnon, Emathion, Astraea, as well as the morning star Phosphorus and evening star Hesperus
- Deity.Roman_equivalent
- Aurora
- Deity.hinduism_equivalent
- Ushas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- solar deity
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Tithonus
- Father
- Hyperion
- Mother
- Theia
- Sibling
- Selene
- Image
- Eos utgjutande morgondaggen, Nordisk familjebok.png
- Residence
- sky
- Said to be same as
- Ushas
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- Eos
- worshipped by
- Ancient Greek religion
- unmarried partner
- Orion
- iconographic symbol
- Gryllidae
- name in native language
- Ἠώς
- domain of saint or deity
- dawn
- present in work
- Iliad
- nickname
- Ῥοδοδάκτυλος
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