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imported>Paul August Undid revision 1273484352 by UrielAcosta (talk) There are more than one Greek mythological figure named Ἕρση (Dew) (Usually transliterated as either Herse or Ersa) This article is about the Ἕρση mentioned in the quote from Plutarch who was said to be the daughter of Zeus and Selene. The Ἕρση who Michale Grant is talking about is the one who was the daughter of the legendary Athenian king Cecrops. |
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Template:Short description Template:Other uses In Greek mythology, according to Plutarch, the 7th century BC Greek poet Alcman said that Ersa Template:IPAc-en or Herse Template:IPAc-en (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, literally "dew"), the personification of dew, is the daughter of Zeus and the Moon (Selene).<ref>Hard, p. 46; ní Mheallaigh, p. 26; Keightley, p. 55. According to Hard, "this is really no more than an allegorical fancy referring to the heavy dew-fall associated with clear moonlit nights", while Keightley calls this a "pleasing fiction" of Alcman, and says that "The moon was naturally, though incorrectly, regarded as the cause of dew, and nothing therefore was more obvious than to say that the dew was the progeny of the moon and sky personified after the usual manner of the Greeks".</ref> Plutarch writes:
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[edit]- Campbell, David A., Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus, Loeb Classical Library No. 142, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1990. Template:ISBN. Online version at Harvard University Press.
- Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004, Template:ISBN.
- Keightley, Thomas, The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, G. Bell and Sons, 1877.
- ní Mheallaigh, Karen, The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Template:ISBN.
- Plutarch, Moralia. 16 vols. (vol. 13: 13.1 & 13.2, vol. 16: index), transl. by Frank Cole Babbitt (vol. 1–5) et al., series: "Loeb Classical Library" (LCL, vols. 197–499). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press et al., 1927–2004.