Αἰών

Αἰών • (Aiṓn) m (genitive Αἰῶνος); third declension

1. (personified) a personification or divine hypostasis of time, lifespan, or eternity

   attested in late Classical and Hellenistic sources

   • 416 BCE, Euripides, Herakles 900:

     Αἰὼν Χρόνου παῖς

     Aiṑn Khrónou paîs

     Aeon, child of Time

   • 458 CE – 538 CE, Damascius, De principiis 151:

     Αἰῶνα

     Aiôna

     Aeon

• As a proper noun, Αἰών denotes a personified or divine principle rather than the common noun “age” or “lifetime”.
• In late philosophical and religious texts (especially Neoplatonic and Hermetic), Αἰών functions as a metaphysical principle of eternal or unified duration, often contrasted with χρόνος.
• In Pythagorean and later numerological traditions, Αἰών is occasionally used as a symbolic designation for the number ten.

• αἰών (aiṓn)
• χρόνος (khrónos)

• “Αἰών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Αἰών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften