Key Info

- The personification of day

Brief Bio

Hemera was the personification of day. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the sister of Aether. 

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera left Tartarus just as Nyx (Night) entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left:

         Night and Day passing near greet one another as they cross the great bronze threshold. The one is 

         about to go in and the other is going out the door, and never does the house hold them both inside,

         but always the one goes out from the house and passes over the earth, while the other in turn

         remaining inside the house waits for the time of her own departure, until it comes. The one holds

         much-seeing light for those on the earth, but the other holds Sleep in her hands, the brother of Deat

         —deadly Night, shrouded in murky cloud.