Hemera

"Day." Hemera is the personification of the day, a daughter of Erebus and Nyx.¹ Hyginus² mentions her as a daughter of Chaos, and as the mother of Uranus, Gaea, and Thalassa by her brother Aether.

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References

Notes

Hesiod. Theogony, 124; Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods, 3.17.
Hyginus. Fabulae: Preface, 2.

Source

Lucian. Dialogues of Sailors, 11.

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