In
Roman folklore, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often
personified as a male figure bearing a torch. The Greek name for this planet was variously
Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or
Heosphoros/
Eosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer"). Lucifer was said to be "the fabled son of
Aurora and
Cephalus, and father of
Ceyx". He was often presented in poetry as heralding the dawn. and poetry. Poets sometimes
personify the star, placing it in a mythological context. As the Latin name for the morning appearances of the planet
Venus, it corresponds not only to the
Greek names
Phosphoros and
Eosphoros, but also to the
Egyptian name
Tioumoutiri, and the
Old English term
Morgensteorra (morning star). A similar name used by the Roman poet
Catullus for the planet in its evening aspect is "Noctifer" (Night-Bringer). This name respectively corresponded to not only the Greek name
Hesperus Ἕσπερος (star of the evening), but also the Egyptian name
Ouaiti, and the
Old English term
Æfensteorra (evening star). Latin Lūcifer “light-bringer, morning star” (lux + ferre); used in the Vulgate for Isaiah 14:12 (Hebrew ; translates to "Shining One, Son of the morning/dawn"), later applied to Satan in Christian tradition. The translation of the
Hebrew word means "Shining One". The 2nd-century Roman mythographer
Hyginus said of the planet: The Latin poet
Ovid, in his 1st-century epic , describes Lucifer as ordering the heavens: Ovid, speaking of Phosphorus and
Hesperus (the Evening Star, the evening appearance of the planet Venus) as identical, makes him the father of
Daedalion. Ovid also makes him the father of
Ceyx, while the Latin grammarian
Servius makes him the father of the
Hesperides or of
Hesperis. In the classical Roman period, Lucifer was not typically regarded as a deity and had few, if any, myths, == Planet Venus, Sumerian folklore, and fall from heaven motif ==