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Hesperus

also: Evening star, Ϝέσπερος, Ἕσπερος

The evening star (the planet Venus at dusk) personified, star of homecoming and of the wedding procession; Sappho's address to him (fr. 104) is the emblem of the whole epithalamian genre.

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The Epithalamia — Wedding Songs poem · 1 mention

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