ok so i know its an epithet...w hat does Homer (dude who wrote Odyssey which i'm reading) mean by htat?? PLZ help..
2006-08-01 02:07:54 · 10 answers · asked by ash 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
A pink sunrise spreads its fingers across the sky. He means rosy like the color, not like a rose (no petals or perfume.) Technically, Dawn is a goddess in Greek Mythology (her name is Aurora. Pretty, eh?) The Sun (Helios) drives a chariot across the sky, which is a way of explaining why the sun seems to travel from the east to the west in the sky and sink into the water at the end of the day. The goddess of the rainbow, Iris, is glowing and multi-colored--irises were named after her because they come in lots of different colors. The Moon is Selene, the darkness of the night sky is Hecate (who rules other things, besides.) The winds are named, like Boreas and Aeolus. Most natural phenomena have a deity or semi-divine entity attached to them (like, say, river and sea nymphs who live in water.)
2006-08-01 09:56:20 · answer #1 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Means the sun rose. A lot of things in Homeric mythology are personified, even if they're not technically "gods". It just means that the sun rose, turning the sky those pretty colors that they do at sunrise.
2006-08-01 09:13:01 · answer #2 · answered by Robin J. Sky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Dawn arrives on the horizon, it comes slowly and oftne rosily/reddish in color.......what he writes makes a picture in your mind of a beautiful rose colored sunrise that creeps along like fingers from below the horizon.
2006-08-01 09:13:10 · answer #3 · answered by MeMi96 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I read it, I took it to refer to sunrise:
As the sun rises, the first beams of light (fingers) spread across the land warming it up and help us and nature rise for the day ahead.
2006-08-01 09:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by Ichi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dawn's rosy fingers refer to the first rays of light at dawn.
2006-08-01 09:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by tweetymay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the red streaks in the sky
in the morning,
the redish glow of daybreak
2006-08-01 09:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by jessicaannjiles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was trying to explain the goddess of the dawn
2006-08-01 09:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just good poetry. No hidden meanings.
2006-08-01 10:48:22 · answer #8 · answered by Cannibal Ox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doh!
2006-08-01 10:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sun rays, its a more poetic way of saying it
2006-08-01 22:03:12 · answer #10 · answered by death_from_above 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋