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Eos

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Also known as Rhododactylos, Erigeneia

dea greca dell'alba

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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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Commons category
Eos
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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Article · Italiano

Eos (in greco antico: Ἠώς, Ēṑs) o Eo è un personaggio della mitologia greca. È la dea greca dell'alba e corrisponde alla divinità romana Aurora e a quella etrusca Thesan.

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