From: odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.ca   
      
   Martin Thau wrote:   
   >   
   > In Schiller's Ballad "Hero und Leander" are the lines   
   >   
   > Hesper und Auroa zogen   
   > Wechsend auf dem Himmelsbogen...   
   >   
   > meaning, probably, that two stars - Aurora and Hesper - are changeging in   
   > their seansons. But who were Hesper and Aurora - and which property do they   
   > share with which stars?   
   >   
   I don't think they're intended to represent stars: Aurora is dawn (or   
   light), and Hesperus evening. I take the passage to refer to the   
   changing length of days from one season to another, a solar   
   phenomenon rather than a stellar.   
      
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