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Dies

deity sky Roman single tradition · 2

The Roman personification of Day. According to Hyginus, Dies was the child of Caligo and Chaos.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
100 BCE
Attested period
-100 – -100
Historical notes
Attested in Hyginus's first-century BC Fabulae.

Relationships

parent of
Terra, Caelus, Mare, Mercury
sibling of
Erebus, Aether, Nox
consort of
Aether
syncretized with
Hemera
co occurs with
Achlys, Chaos
child of
Caligo, Chaos, Caligio

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (2)
  1. Achlys
  2. Hemera

Source passages

“with Chaos, was the mother of Night (Nox), Day (Dies), Darkness (Erebus) and Ether (Aether)”

#15291 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“According to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, Chaos and Caligio (Mist) were the parents of Nox (Night), Dies, Erebus, and Aether. Cicero says that Aether and Dies were the parents of Caelus (Sky).”

#28440 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5