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70-637: Eoalulavis (from the Ancient Greek: Éōs , "dawn"; alula , "bastard wing" ; avis , " bird ") is a monotypic genus of enantiornithean bird that lived during the Barremian , in the Lower Cretaceous around 125 million years ago. The only known species is Eoalulavis hoyasi . Its remains came from the Konservat-Lagerstätte of Las Hoyas , Cuenca , Spain . The holotype (LH13500), housed in

140-416: A common kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis ). One of the most unusual features of this genus lies in the shape of its bony sternum (breastplate). While most early birds had wide sternums, Eoalulavis had a very thin one, with an expanded front end tapering to a point as well as a rear tip with outward-pointing extensions. This form has been described as "spear-shaped" or "fish-shaped" by some. The morphology of

210-456: A monophyletic group of derived Enantiornithes. Nevertheless, this concrete grouping has not a high statistical support and the enantiornithean status of Liaoningornis remains currently controversial. Eoalulavis hoyasi presents numerous synapomorphies that justifies the inclusion of the taxon within Enantiornithes and the less inclusive clade Euenantiornithes . These traits include

280-429: A resin cast. According to its initial description, E. hoyasi was roughly the size of a european goldfinch ( Carduelis carduelis ), with the bony elements of its wings approximately 17 centimeters (7 inches) in length. Later studies estimated that it had a weight of approximately 45 grams (1.6 ounces) and total wingspan (including feathers) of about 26 centimeters (10 inches), giving it proportions similar to those of

350-436: A cicada. Propertius wrote that Eos did not forsake Tithonus, old and aged as he was, and would still embrace him and hold him in her arms rather than leaving him deserted in his cold chamber, while cursing the gods for his cruel fate. This myth might have been used to explain why cicadas were particularly noisy during the early hours of the morning, when the dawn appears in the sky. Sir James George Frazer notes that there

420-420: A different (now rejected) etymology for ἠὼς , linking it to the verb αὔω , meaning "to blow", "to breathe." Lycophron calls her by an archaic name, Tito , meaning "day" and perhaps etymologically linked to "Titan". Karl Kerenyi observes that Tito shares a linguistic origin with Eos's lover Tithonus , which belonged to an older, pre-Greek language. All four of the aforementioned goddesses sharing

490-411: A few the hunter is identified as Tithonus, while the lyre-player is Cephalus. Perhaps the earliest representation of this theme is found on a red-figure rhyton , a statuette-vase, from circa 480-470 BC in which Eos is depicted carrying of a naked boy, perhaps Cephalus, her wings spread and her feet barely touching the ground. The image of Eos pursuing Tithonus was eerily repetitive in ancient art, as

560-539: A groove in the inter-osseous surface of radius or a conspicuous foramen in the dorsal surface of the strut-like coracoids . Eos In Greek literature, Eos is presented as a daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia , the sister of the sun god Helios and the moon goddess Selene . In rarer traditions, she is the daughter of the Titan Pallas . Each day she drives her two-horse chariot , heralding

630-463: A harp as an emblem of music. Cicadas were also believed to be able to survive off of dew alone, a substance closely associated with Eos. The abduction of Cephalus had special appeal for an Athenian audience because Cephalus was a local boy, and so this myth element appeared frequently in Attic vase-paintings and was exported with them. In the literary myths, Eos snatched Cephalus against his will when he

700-447: A high body mass to wingspan ratio. The study concluded that Eolalulavis , Concornis , and likely many other enantiornitheans alternated between the fast bounding flight and the slower but more efficient flapping flight depending on the circumstances, similar to modern songbirds and woodpeckers . The holotype preserves concentrated remains of crustacean cuticles in the area of the abdomen, interpreted as its last meal. It provided

770-521: A linguistic connection with Eos are considered derivatives of the Proto-Indo-European stem *h₂ewsṓs (later *Ausṓs ), "dawn". The root also gave rise to Proto-Germanic *Austrō , Old High German *Ōstara and Old English Ēostre / Ēastre . These and other cognates led to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess, *h₂éwsōs . In the Greek pantheon, Eos, Helios and Zeus are

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840-627: A similar matter to Eos. Aphrodite, like Eos, is predator and not prey, as no tales of men assaulting Aphrodite exist, but there are many where she abducts mortal men reversing the traditional theme of gods and men pursuing maidens, in the same fashion as Eos. Not only does Aphrodite abduct or seduce mortal men as Eos does, but even cites Eos' own adventures with Tithonus when she seduces Anchises . The two goddesses are presented as both maleficent and beneficent abductors, as they confer both death (maleficent) and preservation (beneficent) to their mortal lovers. The two goddesses exist almost side by side in

910-408: A while the two lived happily in her palace, but their happiness eventually came to an end when Tithonus’ hair started turning grey as he aged, and Eos ceased to visit him in their bed. Despite that, the goddess kept him around and nourished him with food and ambrosia; Tithonus never died as he had gained immortality as Zeus promised, but he kept aging and shrivelling, and was soon unable to even move. In

980-472: Is also provided by an Italic red-figure krater in which Aphrodite is shown holding a mirror beneath a solar disc while the Theban hero Cadmus slays the dragon, with a female figure nearly identical to Aphrodite being depicted on another krater labelled " ΑΩΣ ", or Aṓs , the dawn; this shows that although Aphrodite is assimilated to Astarte / Inanna , in Greek artistic tradition she is sometimes presented in

1050-537: Is believed to be the most linked to a semi-aquatic environment of the three. The phylogenetic relationships within Enantiornithes are largely unsolved so far whilst several phylogenetic analyses have been performed in the last decades. However, some groups of Enantiornithes seem to have fairly strong statistical support. In the last cladistic analysis Eoalulavis groups with the Chinese genus Liaoningornis forming

1120-401: Is consistent with the taphonomic processes associated with obruption, stagnation and the action of microbial mats in the locality that have yielded a wide variety of examples of soft-tissue preservation (e.g., connective tissues in fishes and theropods or insect wings). Most of the osteological features of the holotype became apparent only after its acid preparation and transference to

1190-507: Is instead the daughter of the Titan Hyperion , who plays little role in mythology or religion. Rather, a commonly occurring epithet of hers is δῖα , dîa , meaning "divine", from earlier *díw-ya , which would have translated into "belonging to Zeus" or "heavenly". Eos's characterization as a lovestruck, sexual being who took many lovers is directly inherited from her PIE precursor. A common and widespread theme among Hausos's descendants

1260-423: Is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird. In Homer , her saffron-colored robe is embroidered or woven with flowers. Mesomedes of Crete used χιονοβλέφαρος for her, "she who has snow-white eyelids", while Ovid described her as "golden". The delicate and fragile beauty of her appearance seems to be in total contrast with

1330-615: Is seen fighting against the Giants in the south frieze of the Pergamon Altar , which depicts the Gigantomachy, where she rides hither on either a horse or a mule right ahead of Helios, swinging herself on the back of her mount while a Giant already lies on the ground underneath her; a robe wound around her hips serves as her saddle-cloth. She is joined in fight against the Giants by her siblings, her mother Theia, and possibly, conjectured due to

1400-475: Is seen preceding the chariot of Eos (and that of Helios) as the new day breaks. Although the romantic adventures of Eos is a common subject in pottery, so far as it is known, no vase depicts her with Orion or Cleitus, known lovers of hers, instead those vases fall into groups; those that depict Eos with a young hunter identified as Cephalus, and those that depict Eos with a youth holding a lyre, identified as Tithonus. Sometimes those vases bear inscriptions, and on

1470-582: Is the Trojan prince Tithonus , for whom she ensured the gift of immortality, but not eternal youth, leading to him aging without dying for an eternity. In another story, she carried off the Athenian Cephalus against his will, but eventually let him go for he ardently wished to be returned to his wife , though not before she denigrated her to him, leading to the couple parting ways. Several other lovers and romances with both mortal men and gods were attributed to

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1540-473: Is their reluctance to bring the light of the new day. Eos (and Aurora) is sometimes seen as unwilling to leave her bed in the morning, while Uṣas is punished by Indra for attempting to forestall the day, and the Latvian Auseklis was said to be locked up in a golden chamber so she could not always rise in the morning. This Indo-European goddess of the dawn was often conflated and equated with Hemera ,

1610-643: The Orphic Hymns , as the bringer of the new day: Hear, O goddess, you bring the light of day to mortals resplendent Dawn, you blush throughout the world messenger of the great, the illustrious Titan . The position of the hymn in the collection at number 78 is odd, far from the Hymns to the Night (3), the Sun (8) and the Moon (9), where it would be expected to be grouped. While many of

1680-431: The apotheosis of Alcmene (the mother of Heracles ). Among Theia and Hyperion's children, she is the only one depicted with wings, as neither her brother nor her sister ever sport some in art. Eos, along with her brother and sister, is an Indo-European deity, side-lined by the non-IE newcomers to the pantheon; James Davidson argues that apparently persisting on the sidelines was a primary function for them, to be

1750-508: The Orphic Hymns describe the divinities in terms on light, the hymn to Eos is the only one that calls upon the divinity to provide light to the initiates. Eos's team of horses pull her chariot across the sky and are named in the Odyssey as "Firebright" and "Daybright". Quintus described her exulting in her heart over the radiant horses ( Lampus and Phaëton ) that drew her chariot, amidst

1820-688: The Theogony . Eos married the Titan Astraeus ("of the stars") and became the mother of the Anemoi ("winds") namely Zephyrus , Boreas , Notus and Eurus ; of the Morning Star, Eosphoros ( Venus ); of the stars; and of the virgin goddess of justice, Astraea ("starry one"). Her other notable offspring were Memnon and Emathion by the Trojan prince, Tithonus. Sometimes, Hesperus , Phaethon and Tithonus (different from her lover), were said to be

1890-537: The clade which comprises modern birds along with their fossil counterparts, suggest that the development of the alula , and the flight capabilities that it implies, occur early in the avian evolution , presumably in the base of Ornithothoraces . The presence of alula and a complete set of aerodynamic asymmetric feathers arranged forming a modern wing, indicate well develop flight capabilities, as in many other enantiornithean taxa . Its hindlimb morphology remain uncertain as no material of this kind referable to

1960-409: The goddess of the moon , "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless gods who live in the wide heaven" . Out of the four authors that give her and her siblings a birth order, two make her the oldest child, the other two the youngest. In some accounts, Eos's father was called Pallas , who is also confirmed to be the father of Eos's sister Selene in some rare traditions. Even though

2030-531: The pyre of glorious Hector . She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet "rosy-fingered" Eos Rhododactylos ( Ancient Greek : Ἠὼς Ῥοδοδάκτυλος ), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia : That brightest of stars appeared, Eosphoros , that most often heralds the light of early-rising Dawn (Eos Erigeneia). 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

2100-571: The Cephalus that was the husband of Procris, whom she also abducted. The myth about the love of Eos and Tithonus is very old, known as early as Homer, who in the Odyssey described the coming of the new morning as Eos rising from the bed she shares with Tithonus to bring her light to the world. The earliest (and fullest) account survives in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite , where Aphrodite herself narrates

2170-482: The Trojan War saga mirrors that of Thetis herself; both are goddesses married to aging old men, both see their mortal sons die on the battlefield, and both arrange an afterlife/immortality of sorts for said sons. Eos was imagined as a woman wearing a saffron mantle as she spread dew from an upturned urn, or with a torch in hand, riding a chariot. Greek and Italian vases show Eos/Aurora on a chariot preceding Helios, as

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2240-618: The breaking of the new day and her brother's arrival. Thus, her most common epithet of the goddess in the Homeric epics is Rhododactylos , or "rosy-fingered", a reference to the sky's colours at dawn, and Erigeneia , "early-born". Although primarily associated with the dawn and early morning, sometimes Eos would accompany Helios for the entire duration of his journey, and thus she is even seen during dusk. Eos fell in love with mortal men several times, and would abduct them in similar manner to how male gods did mortal women. Her most notable mortal lover

2310-607: The bright-haired Horae , the feminine Hours, the daughters of Zeus and Themis who are responsible for the changing of the seasons, climbing the arc of heaven and scattering sparks of fire. In spite of the goddess already having a husband in the face of her first cousin Astraeus, Eos is presented as a goddess who fell in love several times. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus , it was the jealous Aphrodite who cursed her to be perpetually in love and have an insatiable sexual desire because Eos had once lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares ,

2380-561: The carnal nature that was often attributed to her in myth and literature. According to Greek cosmogony, Eos is the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia : Hyperion, a bringer of light, the One Above, Who Travels High Above the Earth and Theia, The Divine, also called Euryphaessa, "wide-shining" and Aethra , "bright sky". Eos is the sister of Helios, the god of the sun, and Selene ,

2450-496: The children of Eos by Prince Cephalus of Athens . Each morning, the dawn goddess Eos gets up and opens the gates for her brother, Helios, to pass through and rise, ushering in the new day. Although often her job seems to be done once she announces Helios' coming, in the Homeric epics she accompanies him throughout the whole day, and does not leave him until the sunset; hence "Eos" might be used in texts where one would have expected to see "Helios" instead. In Musaeus 's rendition of

2520-440: The collection of Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha  [ es ] , consists on both slab and counterslab preserving mainly the thoracic region, part of the neck and both almost complete forelimbs of an adult specimen. It also preserves remains of the body , primary , secondary feathers and a bastard wing which have been covered by layers of limonite as a result of the fossilization process. The preservation

2590-442: The colors red, white, and gold. Michael Janda etymologizes Aphrodite's name as an epithet of Eos meaning "she who rises from the foam [of the ocean]" and points to Hesiod 's Theogony account of Aphrodite's birth as an archaic reflex of Indo-European myth. On the other hand, however, it is generally accepted that Aphrodite's name etymology is Semitic in origin, and its exact meaning and derivation cannot be determined. Evidence

2660-497: The coming of the new day: 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. In the Theogony , Hesiod wrote "[a]nd after these Erigeneia ["Early-born"] bore

2730-523: The dawn. Meissner (2006) suggested an áwwɔ̄s > /aṷwɔ̄s/ > αὔως lengthening for Aeolic and */aṷwɔ̄s/ > *āwɔ̄s > *ǣwɔ̄s > /ǣɔ̄s/ for Attic-Ionic Greek. In Mycenaean Greek her name is also attested in the form 𐀀𐀺𐀂𐀍 in Linear B , a-wo-i-jo ( Āw(ʰ)oʰios ; Ἀϝohιος), found in a tablet from Pylos ; it has been interpreted as a shepherd's personal name related to "dawn", or dative form Āwōiōi . Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll offered

2800-646: The disembodied wing to the right of Eos's shoulder, the goddess Hemera. According to Hesiod, by her lover Tithonus, Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion. Memnon, king of Aethiopia , joined the Trojans in the Trojan War and fought against Achilles in battle. Much like Thetis , the mother of Achilles, did before her, Eos asked the smithing god Hephaestus with tears in her eyes to forge an armor for Memnon, and he, moved, did as told. Pausanias mentions images of Thetis and Eos both begging Zeus on behalf of their sons. In

2870-425: The earth goddess Gaia learned of a prophecy that the giants would perish at the hand of a mortal, Gaia sought to find a herb that would protect them from all harm; thus Zeus ordered Eos, as well as her siblings Selene ( Moon ) and Helios ( Sun ) not to shine so that she would not be able to seek for it, and harvested all of the plant for himself, denying Gaia the chance to make the Giants indestructible. Moreover, Eos

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2940-495: The enchantment from Cephalus, revealing his identity. Procris, knowing she has been deceived by Eos, flees; she is eventually reunited with Cephalus, but still fearful of Eos, follows him when he goes out hunting, and ends up being accidentally killed by him. Antoninus Liberalis also largely follows the same tradition in his rendition of the myth, though his text contains a lacuna, jumping from Eos' abduction of Cephalus to him having doubts over Procris. The oldest extant account of

3010-431: The end, Eos locked him up in a chamber, where he withered away alone, forever a helpless old man. Out of pity, she turned him into a small bug, a cicada (Greek τέττιξ , tettix ). In the account of Hieronymus of Rhodes from the third century BC, the blame is shifted from Eos and onto Tithonus, who asked for immortality but not agelessness from his lover, who was then unable to help him otherwise and turned him into

3080-546: The end, it was Achilles who triumphed and slew Memnon in battle. Mourning greatly over the death of her son, Eos made the light of her brother, Helios the god of the sun, to fade, and begged Nyx, the goddess of the night, to come out earlier, so she could be able to freely steal her son's body undetected by the armies. After his death, Eos, perhaps with the help of Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), transported Memnon's dead body back to Aethiopia; she also asked Zeus to make her son immortal, and he granted her wish. Eos' role in

3150-444: The ends of the earth ] yet (age) seized (him) ] (immortal?) wife. The myth goes that Eos fell in love with and abducted Tithonus, a handsome prince from Troy , either the brother or the son of King Laomedon (the father of Priam ). She went with a request to Zeus , asking him to make Tithonus immortal for her sake. Zeus agreed and granted her wish, but Eos foolishly forgot to ask for eternal youth as well for her beloved. So for

3220-502: The first direct evidence of feeding behaviour in Enantiornithes and in Mesozoic birds in general, though, since then, more examples of undigested food associated with enantiornithine specimens have been discovered reporting a wide variety of feeding habits. This fact has been interpreted as evidence of an ecological role in Eoalulavis similar to that of extant waders ; living mainly in

3290-407: The forelimb in Eoalulavis is remarkably primitive compared with that of other genera of enantiornithean birds. The alular and major digits both bear a large ungual phalanx and the minor one bears two phalanx . Also the alular digit extends until the distal end of the major metacarpal , which is considered a primitive trait within the clade Enantiornithes . At the time of its discovery, it

3360-527: The genus has been found to date. A 2018 study analyzed the proportions of Eoalulavis and Concornis to determine the optimal flight pattern for those genera. The study found that they likely engaged in bounding flight , a form of flight popular among modern small and short-winged birds. A bird engaging in bounding flight alternates between upward-thrusting flaps and short dives with folded wings. The study also found that they were capable of continuous flapping flight, but were likely unable to glide due to having

3430-421: The god of war. The curse caused her to abduct a number of handsome young men. This explanatory myth was the reason offered for Eos' ravenous sexual desires, as this pattern of behavior of hers was noticed by the ancient Greeks. In the Odyssey , Calypso complains to Hermes about the male gods taking many mortal women as lovers, but not allowing goddesses to do the same. She brings up as example Eos's love for

3500-636: The goddess by various poets throughout the centuries. Eos figures in many works of ancient literature and poetry, but despite her Proto-Indo-European origins, there is little evidence of Eos having received any cult or being the centre of worship during classical times. The Proto-Greek form of Ἠώς / Ēṓs has been reconstructed as *ἀυhώς / auhṓs . It is cognate to the Vedic goddess Ushas , Lithuanian goddess Aušrinė , and Roman goddess Aurora ( Old Latin Ausosa ), all three of whom are also goddesses of

3570-521: The goddess of the day and daylight. Eos might have also played a role in Proto-Indo-European poetry. Eos also shares some characteristics with the love goddess Aphrodite connoting perhaps a semi-shared origin or influence of Eos/ *H a éusōs on Aphrodite, who otherwise has a Near Eastern origin; both goddesses were known for their erotic beauty and aggressive sexuality, both had relationships with mortal lovers, and both were associated with

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3640-399: The hunter Orion , who was killed by Artemis on the island of Ortygia . Apollodorus also mentions Eos's love for Orion, and adds that she brought him to Delos , where he met Artemis and was subsequently slain by her. The good-looking Cleitus was snatched and made immortal by her. Eos fell in love and abducted Cephalus , a son of Hermes , who is sometimes the same as or distinct from

3710-601: The island; it is possible that Aoos was originally a generic name used for Eos’ son or lover, which was then attached to Aphrodite in the form of a consort of the same name as she developed from Eos. Eos is usually described with rosy fingers or rosy forearms as she opened the gates of heaven for the Sun to rise: the singer in the Homeric Hymn to Helios calls her ῥοδόπηχυν ( ACC ), "rosy-armed", as does Sappho , who also describes her as having golden arms and golden sandals; vases depict her rosy-fingered, with golden arms. She

3780-561: The minor gods that the major gods were juxtaposed to, thus helping to keep the Greek religion Greek. However, whereas her brother and sister did receive minor cults, and in Helios' case even major ones, Eos does not seem to have been the focus of any worship at all. Thus there are no known temples, shrines, or altars to Eos. That being said, Ovid seems to allude to the existence of at least two shrines of Eos, as he describes them in plural, albeit few, in

3850-449: The morning star Eosphorus flies with her; she is winged, wearing a fine pleated tunic and mantle. Eos is not an uncommon figure, especially on red-figure vases ; as a single figure she appears rising from the sea in, or driving, a four-horse chariot like her brother Helios, sometimes carrying two hydriae from which she pours morning dew. Because Hermes ' rod had the power to both induce sleep to mortals and wake them up, some times he

3920-442: The myth is attributed to Pherecydes , and the elements it contains were all kept by later poets; in his account however Eos plays no role in the myth. That being said, artistic evidence of Eos abducting a man that can be identified as Cephalus go as back as the early fifth century BC. Eos played a small role in the battle of the earthborn Giants against the gods, known as the Gigantomachy, who rose in rebellion. When their mother,

3990-422: The myth of Phaethon of Syria , with Eos as his mother and Aphrodite as his lover and abductor. Moreover, another telling point is how the name “Aoos” is recorded as both a name for Adonis , Aphrodite's East-originating lover, and a son of Eos by Cephalus (like Phaethon) who became king of Cyprus , an island that was regarded as Aphrodite's birthplace. This suggest a mixture of Mycenaean and Phoenician religions on

4060-452: The name of Hemera , goddess of day. Hyginus omits the kidnapping from the story, and has Cephalus reject Eos out of fidelity to Procris when she begs him to have sex with her. Eos then says to Cephalus that she would not want him to break his vows if Procris herself has not either, and alters his appearance and gives him gifts to trick Procris. Cephalus then goes to Procris as a stranger, and she agrees to lay with him, thereupon Eos removes

4130-447: The shore seeking for little invertebrates in a similar way of modern turnstones . The locality of Las Hoyas was in the Barremian a seasonal subtropical wetland ecologically dominated by fully aquatic organisms (e.g.: holostean fishes). The avifauna of the locality includes so far two more enantiornithean taxa : the sparrow -sized Iberomesornis romerali and the starling -sized Concornis lacustris . Eoalulavis hoyasi

4200-453: The star Eosphoros ("Dawn-bringer"), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned". Thus Eos is preceded by the 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, personified as Ersa or Herse , who is otherwise the daughter of her sister Selene by Zeus. Eos is addressed by the singer in one of

4270-458: The story of Hero and Leander in the sixth century AD, Eos is mentioned during both sunrise and sunset. From the Iliad : 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. ... But soon as early Dawn appeared, the rosy -fingered, then gathered the folk about

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4340-649: The story to her own lover Anchises. Additionally, the myth is also the subject of one of the very few substantially complete works of Sappho, pieced together from different fragments discovered over a period of more than a hundred years, known as the Tithonus poem or the Old Age poem: ...old age already (withers?) all (my) skin, and (my) hair (turned white) from black ] (my) knees do not carry (me) ] (to dance) like young fawns ] but what could I do? ] not possible to become (ageless?) ] rosy-armed Dawn [...] carrying (to)

4410-416: The three gods that are of impeccable Indo-European lineage in both etymology and status, although the former two were sidelined in the pantheon by non-PIE newcomers. A common epithet associated with this dawn goddess is * Diwós D uǵh 2 tḗr , the 'Daughter of Dyēus ', the sky god . In Homeric tradition however, Eos is never stated to be the daughter of Zeus ( Διὸς θυγάτηρ , Diòs thugátēr ), as she

4480-410: The two goddesses are still connected as sisters in the traditions going with lineage from Pallas, their brother Helios is never included with them in those versions, being consistently the son of Hyperion. Mesomedes made her the daughter of Helios, who is usually her brother, by an unnamed mother. Some authors made her the child of Nyx , the personification of the night, who is the mother of Hemera in

4550-502: Was Procris's turn to doubt her husband's fidelity; while hunting, he would often call upon the breeze (' Aura ' in Latin , sounding similar to Eos's Roman equivalent Aurora ) to refresh his body. Upon hearing that, Procris followed and spied on him. Cephalus, mistaking her for some wild animal, threw his spear at her, killing his wife. The second-century CE traveller Pausanias knew of the story of Cephalus's abduction too, though he calls Eos by

4620-399: Was a widespread notion among the ancient Greeks and other ancient peoples that the creatures that shed their skin renew their youth and get to live forever. It could also be a reference to the fact that the high-pitched talk of old men was compared to a cicada's singing, as evidenced in a passage from the Iliad . The ancient Greeks would use a cicada, the most musical of insects, sitting on

4690-465: Was highly unlikely that Procris had stayed faithful to him this entire time. Cephalus, troubled by her words, asked Eos to change his form into that of a stranger's, in order to secretly put Procris's love for him to the test. Cephalus, now disguised, propositioned Procris, who at first declined but eventually gave in when he offered her money. He was hurt by her betrayal, and she left him in shame, but eventually they got back together. This time however it

4760-400: Was hunting and took him to Syria. Although Cephalus was already married to Procris , Eos bore him three sons, including Phaethon and Hesperus , and in some versions the little-attested Aoos who went on to become king of Cyprus, but he then began pining for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to Procris , but not before sowing the seeds of doubt in his mind, telling him that it

4830-591: Was that of erotic pursuit in general; Tithonus was drawn running off to the right in terror, or trying to clobber with a lyre or a spear the pursuing Eos, indicating the terrifying aspect of a mortal man being taken by a goddess. The image of Zeus , the active erastes , pursuing Ganymede , the passive eromenos , was also common, but in the case of Eos, the female figure was put in the dominant position. Other depictions of mythological scenes that include Eos are Memnon's battle with Achilles and Eos' pleading of Zeus for his safety, her seizing of Memnon's dead body, and

4900-474: Was the earliest bird known to possess an alula , a batch of feathers on the alular (first) digit that in modern birds can be separately moved to improve stability at low flight speeds. Later, more enantiornithean specimens were discovered with alula and this fact has consequently strengthen the hypothesis that these animals were able to develop a highly complex and active flight. The wide presence of this trait in both Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha ,

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