When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more
they yoked their pair again, mounted the blazoned car
and out through the gates and echoing colonnade
they whipped the team to a run and on they flew,
holding nothing back, approaching Pylos soon,
the craggy citadel.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 15, lines 211-216. This is Homer’s descriptive account of Telemachus and Pisistratus’ journey back to Pylos from their visit to Menelaus’ palace, having stopped overnight in Diocles’ halls at Phera. Note the personification of dawn. This same literary device, human characteristics attributed to daybreak, is used throughout The Odyssey.