Mythological Summer

 

"Theros, the Greek personification of Summer, is depicted as a winged youth holding a sheaf of grain in one hand and a sickle in the other”.  Image Source

I recently learned of the Greek personification of the Summer season, named Theros. It is one of the the Horae (or Horai)—a collective of goddesses representing seasons and natural order.

In my initial research, I was led to believe that the figure was male since it was described as “a youth” and also by the seemingly masculine nature of the name with its “o” in the last syllable rather than the typically feminine “a”.

Then I read further that the Romans often depicted the figure of Theros as masculine and that, in general, there is traditional leway for artistic license with the character.

As with many topics that strike my fancy, I have become a bit obsessed with visualizing the figure and have made quite a few AI generated images based on specific prompts describing style and medium. Below are some of them:

Created with ChatGPT

Created with Adobe Firefly

Created with Fotor

Created with Grok

Created with Meta AI

ChatGPT gender-neutral render