god
Dawn (Eos)
Dawn
also: Αὔως, Αὔων, Ἠώς, Eos
The dawn-goddess, βροδόπαχυς 'rosy-armed' in fr. 58, who loved the mortal Tithonus and carried him to the ends of the earth — and whose immortal mornings could not keep him young. Sappho makes her the proof that no one escapes old age.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Books Three and Four §58 rosy-armed Dawn
Αὔως (here accusative Αὔων), the dawn-goddess Eos, βροδόπαχυς, 'rosy-armed' — the epithet Sappho elsewhere gives the Graces, and the Aeolic counterpart of Homer's rosy-fingered. That the goddess of the recurring morning could not keep her own husband young is the poem's quiet cruelty.