god
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.
Reading notes
- The Epithalamia — Wedding Songs §104 Evening star
Hesperus, the evening star (the planet Venus at dusk), personified; the wedding procession set out at his rising, so he opens the genre. Sappho's Aeolic keeps the old initial w-sound (Wesperos), cousin to Latin Vesper.