ABSTRACT
Daughters of Zeus and Themis. The name means not ‘hours of the day’ but ‘seasons of the year’. The number of Hours or Seasons varied from two to four, but generally there are three: Spring, Summer, and Winter. In Athens two or three were recognised, Thallo (Spring), Carpo (Harvest, Autumn, Fall), and sometimes Auxo (‘In-crease’, i.e. Summer). In Hesiod they are given ethical names, Eunomia (‘law and order’), Dike (‘justice’), and Eirene (‘peace’). They were wardens of the sky and when the gods went forth in their chariots, they rolled aside the clouds from the gate of Olympus.
