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Dies (mythology)

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Dies
Personification of day
Hemera/Dies (1881) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Personal information
Parents	Chaos and Caligo
Siblings	Nox, Erebus, and Aether
Consort	Aether, Caelus
Children	Terra, Caelus, Mare
Equivalents
Greek equivalent	Hemera

InRoman mythology, Dies /ˈdaɪ.iːz/^[1] (Latin diēs "day") was the personification of day. She was the daughter of Chaos and Caligo (Mist), and the counterpart of the Greek goddess Hemera.

Family[edit]

According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Chaos and Caligo were the parents of Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus (Darkness), and Aether.^[2] Cicero says that Aether and Dies were the parents of Caelus (Sky).^[3] While, Hyginus says that, in addition to Caelus, Aether and Dies were also the parents of Terra (Earth), and Mare (Sea).^[4] Cicero also says that Dies and Caelus were the parents of Mercury, the Roman counterpart of Hermes.^[5]

Name[edit]

The Latin noun diēs is based on the Proto-Italic accusative singular *dijēm, itself stemming from the Proto-Indo-European root *dyeu-, denoting the "diurnal sky" or the "brightness of the day" (in contrast to the darkness of the night).^[6]^[7] The corresponding Proto-Indo-European day god is *Dyeus.

Notes[edit]

^ "dies". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)

^ Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 1 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95).

^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.44.

^ Hyginus, Fabulae Theogony 1–2 (Smith and Trzaskoma, p. 95).

^ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.56.

^ de Vaan 2008, p. 170.

^ West 2007, p. 167.

References[edit]

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De Natura DeoruminCicero: On the Nature of the Gods. Academics, translated by H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library No. 268, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, first published 1933, revised 1951. ISBN 978-0-674-99296-2. Online version at Harvard University Press. Internet Archive.

Hyginus, Gaius Julius, FabulaeinApollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma, Hackett Publishing Company, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6.

de Vaan, Michiel (2008). Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages. Brill. ISBN 9789004167971.

West, Martin L. (2007). Indo-European Poetry and Myth. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-928075-9.