Editing Eos (section)

==== Homer and Hesiod ====
From the ''[[Iliad]]'':

<blockquote>Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hastening from the streams of [[Oceanus]], to bring light to mortals and immortals, [[Thetis]] reached the ships with the armor that the god had given her.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' xix.1</ref>

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But soon as early Dawn appeared, the [[Rose (color)|rosy]]-fingered, then gathered the folk about the [[pyre]] of glorious [[Hector]].<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' xxiv.776</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Francesco Solimena - Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus - 84.PA.65 - J. Paul Getty Museum.jpg|thumb|''Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus'' by [[Francesco Solimena]], [[oil on canvas]], 1704, [[J. Paul Getty Museum]].]]

She is most often associated with her Homeric [[epithet]] "rosy-fingered" '''Eos Rhododactylos''' ({{langx|grc|{{lang|grc|Ἠὼς Ῥοδοδάκτυλος}}}}), but Homer also calls her '''Eos Erigeneia''':

<blockquote>That brightest of stars appeared, [[Eosphorus|Eosphoros]], that most often heralds the light of early-rising Dawn (Eos Erigeneia).<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' xiii.93</ref></blockquote>

Near the end of the ''[[Odyssey]]'', [[Athena]], wanting to buy [[Odysseus]] some time with his wife [[Penelope]] after they have reunited with each other, orders Eos not to yoke her two horses, thus delaying the coming of the new day:

<blockquote>And rose-fingered Dawn would have shone for the weepers had not bright-eyed goddess Athena thought of other things. She checked the long night in its passage, and further, held golden-throned Dawn over Ocean and didn't let her yoke her swift-footed horses, that bring daylight to men, Lampus and Phaethon, the colts that carry Dawn.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Odyssey]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/3#OD.23.240 13.241&ndash;246]</ref></blockquote>

In the ''[[Theogony]]'', [[Hesiod]] wrote "[a]nd after these Erigeneia ["Early-born"] bore the star [[Eosphoros]] ("Dawn-bringer"), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned".<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 378&ndash;382]</ref> Thus Eos is preceded by the [[Phosphorus (morning star)|Morning Star]], and is thus seen as the genetrix of all the stars and planets; her tears are considered to have created the morning dew, [[Personification|personified]] as [[Ersa]] or [[Herse]],<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 13.621&ndash;2</ref> who is otherwise the daughter of her sister Selene by Zeus.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA46 p. 46]; Keightley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=YhsYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55 p. 55]; [[Alcman]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/alcman-fragments/1988/pb_LCL143.435.xml fr. 57 Campbell].</ref>