Aestas means summer or summer heat. She is the Roman personification of summer, mentioned by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, and therefore possibly his own invention. He describes her as standing by the emerald throne of solar deity PHOEBUS, naked except for a garland of grain or wheat-sheaves in her hair. Ovid's depiction of her may owe something to the Greek depiction of the HORAI, the goddesses of the seasons
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