InGreek mythology, according toPlutarch, the 7th century BC Greek poetAlcman said thatErsa/ˈɜːrsə/ orHerse/ˈhɜːrsiː/ (Ἔρσα,Érsa,Ἕρση,Hérsē, literally "dew"), the personification ofdew, is the daughter ofZeus and the Moon (Selene).^[1] Plutarch writes:

We observe this happening to the air also: it sheds dew especially at the full moon when it melts, as the lyric poet Alcman says somewhere when he talks in riddling fashion of the dew as daughter of air and moon:
such things as are nurtured by Dew, daughter of Zeus and Selene.^[2]

• Campbell, David A.,Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus,Loeb Classical Library No. 142, Cambridge, Massachusetts,Harvard University Press, 1990.ISBN 0-674-99157-5.Online version at Harvard University Press.
• Hard, Robin,The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology", Psychology Press, 2004,ISBN 9780415186360.
• Keightley, Thomas,The Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy, G. Bell and Sons, 1877.
• ní Mheallaigh, Karen,The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination: Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2020.ISBN 9781108603188.
• Plutarch,Moralia. 16 vols. (vol. 13: 13.1 & 13.2, vol. 16: index), transl. by Frank Cole Babbitt (vol. 1–5) et al., series: "Loeb Classical Library" (LCL, vols. 197–499). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press et al., 1927–2004.

• The dictionary definition ofErsa at Wiktionary

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