Eos

In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos 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. She is often characterized as a goddess with a great sexual appetite, who took numerous lovers for her own satisfaction and bore them several children. Her Roman counterpart is Aurora.

Quotes

• So on he drifted for two nights and days
  O’er the high swell, and oft his heart forbode
  The end; but when the fair-haired Dawn fulfilled
  The third day, then the tempest dropped, and fell
  A windless calm; and, poised on a big wave
  With quick look-out he saw the land near by.
  • Homer, Odyssey, V, 388-399
  • Sir William Marris, tr., The Odyssey of Homer (1925), p. 96

• Surely the Sun has labour all his days,
    And never any respite, steeds nor god,
  Since Eos first, whose hands are rosy rays,
    Ocean forsook, and Heaven’s high pathway trod;
  • Mimnermus, quoted in Athenaeus, 469f
  • Gilbert Murray, Ancient Greek Literature (1897), p. 81