Ceaseless uprose the keen, and in their midst, fallen on her son and clasping, wailed Eos." Echoed round far-stretching mountains, and Aisepos' (Aesepus') stream. These came down from heaven, for Memnon wailing wild and high and mourned with these the Pleiades. ![]() Twelve maidens shining-tressed attended her, the warders of the high paths of the sun for ever circling, warders of the night and dawn, and each world-ordinance framed of Zeus, around whose mansion's everlasting doors from east to west they dance, from west to east, whirling the wheels of harvest-laden years, while rolls the endless round of winter's cold, and flowery spring, and lovely summer-tide, and heavy-clustered autumn. "Eos (the Lady of the Morn) wailing her dear child from the heavens came down. Marvelled the Daughters of the Sun ( Helioio Thugatres) who stood near her, around that wondrous splendour-ring traced for the race-course of the tireless sun by Zeus, the limit of all Nature's life and death, the dally round that maketh up the eternal circuit of the rolling years." "Erigeneia (the Child of the Mist) in her chariot through the sky she rode. "As when descends Eos (the Dawn) from Olympos' crest of adamant, Eos, heart-exultant in her radiant steeds amidst the bright-haired Horai (Horae, Hours) and o'er them all, how flawless-fair soever these may be, her splendour of beauty glows pre-eminent." ANATOLIA, MESEMBRIA, DYSIS, ARKTOS (Nonnus Dionysiaca 41.263) AUGE, ANATOLE, MOUSIKA, GYMNASTIKA, NYMPHE, MESEMBRIA, SPONDE, ELETE, AKTE, HESPERIS, DYSIS (Hyginus Fabulae 183) ![]() KHRONOS (Nonnus Dionysiaca 12.15) OFFSPRING The twelve Horai were not always clearly distinguishable from the Horai of the seasons who were also described as overseeing the path of the sun. Thus the length of the hour varied between the longer days of summer and shorter ones of winter. ![]() Instead they divided the hours of daylight into twelve portions identified by the position of the sun in the sky. The ancient Greeks did not have hours of fixed length as we do today. They guided the path of the sun-god Helios as he journeyed across the sky, dividing the day into portions. THE TWELVE HORAI (Horae) were goddesses of the hours of the day (and perhaps also the twelve months of the year).
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