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Eos (Aurora)

Aurora (Adolphe-William Bouguereau)

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Aurora(from Latin aura - “pre-dawn breeze”, among the Greeks Eos) - goddess of the dawn, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Selene and wife of the Titan Astraea.
The goddess Aurora gave birth to the titan Astraea Zephyr, Boreas and Notus, as well as Hesperus and other constellations. In Roman mythology, she is the goddess of dawn, bringing daylight to gods and people.
She was usually depicted winged, often on a chariot drawn by winged or unwinged horses, in a red and yellow robe, sometimes with a solar disk above her head, with a halo or crown of rays around her forehead, or with a torch in her right hand, sometimes also with vessels (of dew) in hand.
The asteroid (94) Aurora, discovered in 1867, is named after Aurora.

Sunrise (Francois Boucher (1703-1770)

Aurora- (In Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Greek Eos).
Eos(ancient Greek Ἕως , epic Ἠώς , Mycenaean a-wo-i-jo) in Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn. Second generation Titanide: daughter of the Titan Hyperion and the Titanide Theia, sister of Helios and Selene. According to another version, her mother was Hyperion's sister Eirithaesa. Considering that during the revolt of the giants, Zeus temporarily forbade both Selene and Helios and Eos from shining, she, along with her relatives, is a bearer of light.

Apollo and Aurora (Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711)

In her marriage to the giant Astraeus, Aurora gave birth to Boreas, Notus and Zephyr, the Morning Star (Venus), and, according to many, all the other stars in the heavens. The fact that Eos gave birth to all the winds except the east (which itself was considered fertilizing) suggests its close connection or identity with Astraeus. During the revolt of the titans, Astraeus rebelled against Zeus and was cast into Tartarus - it is not known for certain whether this happened before or after Eos’s many love interests.
In Homer, Eos is described as “rosy-fingered,” leading Helios daily to heaven, leaving her beloved Tithon still sleeping. On Greek vases she is depicted as winged, often riding a chariot drawn by four horses (quadriga). It was believed that she lives in Ethiopia and goes to heaven through the silver gate. She is wearing a saffron robe, and the stallions Lamp and Phaeton are harnessed to the chariot. Painting the sky pink and sending its rays first to Olympus and then to the earth to awaken people, Dawn announces the approach of Helios. With his appearance, Eos becomes Hemera (Day) and accompanies the sun all the way, finally turning into Hespera (Evening) on ​​the western shore of the Ocean.
Eos is also known for her eternal and unquenchable passion for mortal youths. Aphrodite inspired this desire in her in retaliation for the fact that Eos shared a bed with Ares. Since then, shy and secretive, she seduces them one after another. Her lovers were: Orion, Cephalus, grandson Melampus Cleitus. Graves, however, considers the love adventures of Eos only an allegory: with dawn, erotic passion returns to lovers, and attraction usually arises in men.
Having fallen in love with Orion, Eos persuaded her brother Helios to restore his sight. After that, they shared a bed on the sacred island of Delos, from this shamelessness Dawn blushed, and remained crimson.

Aurora and Cephalus (P. N. Guerin)

Mullet was already married to Procris when he attracted the favorable attention of the goddess. Eos opened up to him, but he politely refused her on the grounds that he could not deceive Procris, with whom he was bound by an oath of eternal fidelity. Eos objected that she would easily break her oath in exchange for gold. To convince Cephalus, she made him look like a certain Pteleon and advised him to seduce Procris, promising a golden crown. When this was easily accomplished, Cephalus, without remorse, became the beloved of Eos, who aroused painful jealousy in Procris.

Aurora and Typhon (Francesco de Mura (1696-1784)

Typhon(Titon) is the most beautiful son of the Trojan king Laomedon (according to other versions - Tros or Ilus) and the brother of Priam. Eos kidnapped him and took him with her to Ethiopia, where she made him king and gave birth to Memnon from him. In another version, Tithon was kidnapped by the goddess along with his brother Ganymede, but Zeus took him from her. In return, Eos begged him to grant immortality to Tithon, but forgot to ask for eternal youth (like Selene for Endemion). When Tithon began to grow old, and Eos was tired of caring for him, she locked him in her bedroom, where he gradually dried up and turned into a cicada.
The abduction of Ganymede is seen by Graves as a misreading of the ancient image by a later mythographer, who perceived the image of the bride in the scene of the sacred marriage with the new king as an image of Eos.
After the death of his son Memnon at the hands of Achilles, Eos mourns him every morning, and the tears fall like the morning dew.

“Aurora” is a marble statue depicting an allegory of Morning (or Dawn),
created by Michelangelo during 1526-1531.

Irving Stone’s biographical novel “Torment and Joy” (1961) emphasizes the fact that Michelangelo, apart from Madonnas, had not made female statues in marble before, therefore “Night” and “Morning” occupy a special place in his work. In the work about the statue it is written as follows: “[Michelangelo] carved “Morning” - a woman who had not yet fully awakened, captured on the verge of dream and reality; her head was still sleepily resting on her shoulder; the ribbon pulled tightly under the breasts only emphasized their volume, their bulbous shape; the abdominal muscles sagged slightly, the womb was tired from bearing the fetus; the whole difficult path of her life was read in her half-closed eyes, in her half-open mouth; raised, as if broken at the elbow, the left arm hung in the air and was ready to fall the moment the woman lifted her head from her shoulder to look into the face of the day.”

Emblematics

In MC (Emblemata and Symbols) Aurora refers to the section “Times and Changes, or the Passage of Time,” to Daytime Times. The following is said about it:
Aurora statue (Krasnodar city)- Aurora, the morning star, morning or morning time, appears as a winged woman, with a star on her head, sometimes as a young nymph, crowned with flowers, sitting in a scarlet or purple chariot, drawn by Pegasus, with a torch in her right hand, scattering roses with her left. Sometimes with a great veil stretched far back, with ruddy breasts and scarlet horses. Sometimes with a rooster standing next to her.
Aurora (Eos) is a popular figure in Baroque painting (most often palace ceilings and vaults). There are many varieties of its image:

* flying in front of Helios's chariot with a torch;
* ruling chariot (two or four),
* riding on the winged Pegasus, scattering flowers on its way;
* her flight is often watched by the bearded Typhon (Tithon);
* often she and the chariot of the Sun are surrounded by young Oras - goddesses of the seasons.

Also often depicted are receding night clouds and an illuminated horizon.

Aurora (Auguste Fragonard)

Aurora and Cephalus; kidnapping of Cephalus

Aurora's passion for Cephalus was reinterpreted by Italian Baroque playwrights and, being popular, was widely used by artists. According to this story, the passion for Cephalus is the strongest among Eos. The fact that he rejected her forced Eos to neglect his daily duty, bringing Helios to heaven. Cupid saved the world from Khoas by forcing Cephalus to reciprocate her feelings. Happy Aurora carried the young man in her chariot to heaven. "Kidnapping" Cephalus means his capture rather than sexual violence, as in the cases of the kidnappings of Europa and Proserpina.
Aurora (Michelangelo Buonarroti)- Aurora (winged) is depicted rapidly flying from the sky down to Cephalus. Her chariot awaits them on the clouds, surrounded by cupids. In another interpretation, Cephalus is on a chariot, still trying to reject Aurora's embrace, while old Tithon lies nearby and sleeps, unaware of what is happening.
Aurora also appears in the story of Cephalus and Procris, another dramatic adaptation dating from the same time.

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In the myths of the ancient Greeks, the goddess of the dawn. Eos and Astraeus gave birth to the winds (Boreas, Not and Zephyr), as well as the stars... Historical Dictionary

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- (aeol. AuwV, ion. HwV, dor. AwV, att. EwV, from the ancient Greek ausos; this also includes lat. Aurora) goddess of the dawn, daughter of Hyperion and Thea, sister of Helios and Selene (according to other versions, she was the daughter Helios; Night was sometimes considered her mother). E. appeared... Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

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eos in the crossword dictionary

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eos

in Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn. It corresponds to the Roman Aurora.

Mythological dictionary

eos

(Greek) - goddess of the dawn, daughter of the Titan Hyperion and the Titanide Theia (option: Helios and Nikta), sister of Helios and Selene. From Astraeus E. gave birth to the winds - Boreas, Zephyr and Note, as well as the stars. In the morning she rides out in a chariot drawn by two horses (option: flies on white wings), announcing the appearance of her brother Helios. Because E. shared a bed with Ares, Aphrodite took revenge on her by instilling in her a love for handsome young men. E. kidnapped Orion and Cephalus, then Tithon, the beautiful son of the Trojan king Laomedon, and gave birth to Memnon from him. E. begged Zeus for immortality for Tithon, but forgot to ask for eternal youth for him. Tithon became a decrepit, undying old man, and E. turned him into a cicada. When Memnon was killed by Achilles near Troy, E. buried her son and constantly mourned him, dropping copious tears (morning dew) onto the ground. E. was depicted as a young woman with long wavy hair, wearing a pink robe.

Eos

in ancient Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn, sister of Helios (sun) and Selene (moon). The Greeks imagined her as a beautiful young woman, whose fingers and clothes shone with a golden-pink sheen as she rode her chariot to heaven in the morning. Homer has a constant formula heralding the beginning of the day: “Golden Eos arose from the night, with purple fingers” (translation by V. A. Zhukovsky). In ancient Roman mythology, Aurora corresponds to her.

Wikipedia

Eos

Eos appeared early in the morning, emerging from the ocean, and ascended to heaven in a chariot drawn by beautiful horses. Poets, starting with Homer, described the beauty of Eos and her splendor, calling her “rose-fingered,” “beautiful-haired,” “golden-throned,” “dressed in saffron peplos,” etc. Her epithet is explained as follows: “Before sunrise, diverging the center has pink stripes that resemble outstretched fingers.”

The goddess with pink fingers, as Homer calls her, rises from her bed in the morning, swims out from the depths of the sea on her divine horses Lampos and Phaeton and illuminates the universe with light. Already in Homer, Aurora is called the goddess of the day and is identified.

The name Eos comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *haus-os-. In Roman mythology, Eos corresponds to Aurora, in Slavic mythology - Dennitsa, in Baltic mythology - Aushra, in Indo-Aryan - Ushas.

Eos (disambiguation)

Eos- can mean the following:

• Eos - goddess of the dawn,
• (221) Eos is an asteroid.

Examples of the use of the word eos in literature.

When did the twilight rose-fingered descend Eos and the evening dew refreshed the classical land, then we, sweetly memeing, headed home, reached the cave in complete darkness and settled there in a pleasant warmth on the velvet moss, some to suck the udder, some to chew the cud.

One day the rose-fingered goddess of the dawn saw the beautiful Cephalus Eos, kidnapped him and took him far from Athens, to the very ends of the earth.

So the morning dawn would have found them if the goddess Athena had not lengthened the nights and forbidden the rose-fingered goddess of the dawn to fly towards him. Eos.

Roman goddess of the dawn, corresponds to the Greek Eos (mythical)

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(Aurora) - goddess of the morning Dawn, daughter of the titan Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios.

Helios' sister, pink-fingered Eos, precedes his appearance on the horizon. Every morning she washes the ground with dew and opens her pink wings. Like any woman, Eos is subject to the power of Eros. Seeing Tithon, the son of the Trojan king, from her heavenly heights, she fell in love with him and took him to her mansion at the edge of heaven and earth. Wanting to share happiness with Tithon forever, Eos begged Zeus to grant him immortality, but due to the absent-mindedness characteristic of all lovers, she forgot to ask for eternal youth.

Teton- son of the Trojan king Priam, beloved Eos.

Time passed, and the beauty of Titon faded. On his forehead, Chronos (Time) cut deep wrinkles as if with a chisel. The once beautiful cheeks have wrinkled. The ringing voice became hoarse and rattling. Couldn't love Tithon Eos more. She only had pity for him. Therefore, she did not throw him to the ground, as another cruel goddess would have done, but kept him in her mansion behind a curtain, trying to see him as little as possible, so as not to suffer from bitter memories.
One day the gods visited the mansion, and, hearing the hoarse breathing of an old man from behind the curtain, Zeus was ashamed that the gift Eos had asked for had become a source of suffering both for herself and for the unfortunate Tithon. He took away the old man’s human form and turned him into a cricket. Since then, the cricket has lived in old houses and hummed its sad, rattling song.

Memnon

Memnon- son of Tithon and the goddess of Dawn Eos. King of Ethiopia.

From Tithon Eos gave birth to two beautiful twin sons and gave them the Egyptian names Memnon and Emathion. Memnon, as the eldest, became the king of the sun-loving Ethiopians. During the Trojan War, having heard that the Trojans were being defeated and that the Amazons who came from the north could not help them, he decided to support his uncle Priam. Under the walls of Troy, Memnon killed many of the Trojans' enemies, but he himself fell at the hands of the mighty Achilles. Not only mortals, but also the divine mothers of the combatants watched the duel of heroes with bated breath. Eos did everything to keep her Memnon alive. She gave him two winds that could carry him away in case of mortal danger. But Achilles’ golden spear did not miss.
Eos turned to the father of the gods with a prayer to allow him to bury his son in his homeland. Zeus had mercy, and the winds carried Memnon’s body to Ethiopia, where his mother gave him a magnificent funeral.
To this day, inconsolable Eos, at the hour of her appearance in the sky, continues to shed her dewdrop tears, unable to forget about her beloved son.

Genealogy:

Titans: Part of this branch is devoted to the origin of the goddess Eos, as well as her children from various marriages.