Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Hemera.
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Day (Le Jour)
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1884
An academic oil painting personifying Hemera, the Greek goddess of daytime, as a female figure rising in flight against the morning sky. It belongs to Bouguereau's series of allegories of the hours, alongside Dawn, Twilight and Night, and was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1884.