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Eos and Tithonus, by Julien Simon, 1783, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. The myth about the love of Eos and Tithonus is very old, known as early as Homer, who in the Odyssey described the coming of the new morning as Eos rising from the bed she shares with Tithonus to bring her light to the world. [74]
In Greek mythology, Tithonus (/ t ɪ ˈ θ oʊ n ə s / or / t aɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός, romanized: Tithonos) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. [i] He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ).
Although Eos (Dawn) is a separate entity in Hesiod's Theogony—where she is the daughter of the Titans Theia and Hyperion, the mother of Memnon, and the lover of Cephalus [14] —elsewhere Eos and Hemera are identified. [15]
Eos: When Eos wished for her mortal lover Tithonus to become immortal, her wish was granted, but she forgot to wish for eternal youth as well. As a result, Tithonus kept aging, but never dying, until he became a shrivelled, helpless old man. In the end, Eos transformed him into a cicada. Tyrrhenian pirates: Dolphins: Dionysus
In Greek mythology, Astraeus (/ ə ˈ s t r iː ə s /) or Astraios (Ancient Greek: Ἀστραῖος, romanized: Astraîos, lit. 'starry' [1]) is an astrological god. Some also associate him with the winds, as he is the father of the four Anemoi (wind deities), by his wife, the dawn-goddess Eos.
In Greek mythology, Hesperus (/ ˈ h ɛ s p ə r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἕσπερος, romanized: Hésperos) is the Evening Star, the planet Venus in the evening. A son of the dawn goddess Eos (Roman Aurora), he is the half-brother of her other son, Phosphorus (also called Eosphorus; the "Morning Star").
Like Roman Aurora and Rigvedic Ushas, Eos continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Eos, or her earlier PIE ancestor, also shares several elements with the love goddess Aphrodite , perhaps signifying Eos's influence on her or otherwise a common origin for the two.
Helios figures prominently in several works of Greek mythology, poetry, and literature, in which he is often described as the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia and brother of the goddesses Selene (the Moon) and Eos (the Dawn). Helios' most notable role in Greek mythology is the story of his mortal son Phaethon. [2]