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N3.1 THE CHARIOT OF EOS-HEMERA

Chariot of Eos-Hemera | Attic black figure vase painting
DETAILS
Museum Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Catalogue No. New York 41.162.29
Beazley Archive No. 305499
Ware Attic Black Figure (White Ground)
Shape Lekythos
Painter Attributed to the Sappho Painter
Date ca. 500 B.C.
Period Archaic

DESCRIPTION

Eos-Hemera, the goddess of dawn and day, drives a four horse chariot across the sky. She is crowned with and trails a misty ball and veil of light (aither). Nyx, her nocturnal counterpart (see other image), drives in the opposite direction, crowned with and drawing mists of darkness (erebos).

Although the figure is labelled HEOS she appears in the guise of Hemera (Day), opposite number of Nyx (Night), as described in Hesiod's Theogony. Later writers conflate the two goddesses.

ARTICLES

Hemera, Eos

OTHER IMAGES

Thumbnail Helius, Eos & Nyx

T17.3 Helius

Thumbnail Nyx

N1.3 Nyx