Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Lucifer.
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Phosphorus and Hesperus
Evelyn De Morgan, 1881
De Morgan’s Pre-Raphaelite pair: Phosphorus (Eosphorus), the Morning Star, clasps Hesperus, the Evening Star — Hesiod’s dawn-bringer as a luminous youth, not the Christian Satan who later borrowed Lucifer’s Latin name.
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Theogony (Eosphorus)
Hesiod
Hesiod’s Eosphorus — Dawn-bringer, child of Eos and Astraeus — is the Morning Star among the winds and stars that crown heaven.
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Phosphorus (morning star)
Greek Phosphorus / Latin Lucifer as the personified Morning Star — Venus at dawn — carefully distinct from later Christian demonology that reused the Latin name.