Eos: El dominio fugaz de la Aurora: Fuentes literarias y representaciones artísticas en el mito de Eos

Abstract

This paper deals with Eos, the Dawn, and other characters connected with her (some from resemblance and paralelism and some from opposition), that are examined both through literary and iconography evidences, whose important agreements are clear. In Eos we distinguish very different facets: as astral, cosmic divinity, as everlasting lover and abductor and as sorrowful mother. In every facet she shows her intence personality, her special powers and characteristics on the analogy of other goddesses with extraordinary gifts also, and all of them with significant points of contact with the oriental Great Goddess. On the other hand, we perceive here a very outstanding characteristic of many other questions in the Greek world: the marked liking for the antithesis, specially the opposition mortal / inmortal.