Greek Goddess of the Dawn (Roman Aurora)Greek Mythology > > Greek Gods > > Sky Gods > > Titans > > Eos. Eos and Tithonus, Athenian red- figure kylix C5th B. C., British Museum. EOS was the rosy- fingered goddess of the dawn. She and her siblings Helios (the Sun) and Selene (the Moon) were numbered amongst the second- generation Titan gods. Eos rose into the sky from the river Okeanos (Oceanus) at the start of each day, and with her rays of light dispersed the mists of night. She was depicted either driving a chariot drawn by winged horses or borne aloft on her own wings. Eos had an unquenchable desire for handsome young men, some say as the result of a curse laid upon her by the goddess Aphrodite. Her lovers included Orion, Phaethon, Kephalos (Cephalus) and Tithonos (Tithonus), three of which she ravished away to distant lands. The Trojan prince Tithonos became her official consort. When the goddess petitioned Zeus for his immortality, she neglected also to request eternal youth. 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In some myths- -such as the tales of Orion and Kephalos- -Eos stood virtually as a non- virginal substitute for Artemis. FAMILY OF EOSPARENTS[1. HYPERION & THEIA(Hesiod Theogony 3. Apollodorus 1. 8, Hyginus Pref, Ovid Fasti 5. HYPERION & EURYPHAESSA(Homeric Hymn 3. Helios)[2. 1] PALLAS(Ovid Fasti 4. Valerius Flaccus 2. OFFSPRING[1. 1] THE ANEMOI (BOREAS, ZEPHYROS, NOTOS), THE ASTRA (EOSPHOROS) (by Astraios) (Hesiod Theogony 3. Apollodorus 1. 9)[1. BOREAS, ZEPHYROS, NOTOS (by Astraios) (Hyginus Preface)[1. BOREAS, ZEPHYROS, NOTOS, EUROS, EOSPHOROS (by Astraios) (Nonnus Dionysiaca 6. HESPEROS (by Kephalos) (Hyginus Astronomica)[2. ASTRAIA (by Astraios) (Hyginus Astronomica)[3. MEMNON, EMATHION (by Tithonos) (Hesiod Theogony 9. Apollodorus 3. 1. MEMNON (by Tithonos) (Aethiopis Frag 1, Quintus Smyrnaeus 2. Pindar Nemean 6 str. Diodorus Siculus 4. Callistratus Descriptions 9, Ovid Fasti 4. MEMNON (Philostratus Elder 1. Callistratus Descriptions 1)[4. PHAETHON- TITHONOS (by Kephalos) (Hesiod Theogony 9. Apollodorus 3. 1. Pausanias 1. 3. 1)ENCYCLOPEDIAEOS (Êôs), in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphassa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. Hes. Theog. 3. 71, & c.; Hom. Hymn in Sol. ii.) Ovid (Met. Fast. iv. 3. 73) calls her a daughter of Pallas. At the close of night she rose front the couch of her beloved Tithonus, and on a chariot drawn by the swift horses Lampus and Phaëton she ascended up to heaven from the river Oceanus, to announce the coming light of the sun to the gods as well as to mortals. Hom. Od. v. 1, & c., xxiii. Virg. Aen. iv. 1. Georg. i. 4. 46; Hom. Hymn in Merc. 1. 85; Theocrit. In the Homeric poems Eos not only announces the coming Helios, but accompanies him throughout the day, and her career is not complete till the evening; hence she is sometimes mentioned where one would have expected Helios (Od. Hemera, of whom in later times the same myths are related as of Eos. Paus. i. 3. § 1, iii. The later Greek and the Roman poets followed, on the whole, the notions of Eos, which Homer had established, and the splendour of a southern aurora, which lasts much longer than in our climate, is a favourite topic with the ancient poets. Mythology represents her as having carried off several youths distinguished for their beauty. Thus she carried away Orion, but the gods were angry at her for it, until Artemis with a gentle arrow killed him. Hom. Od. v. 1. 21.) According to Apollodorus (i. Eos carried Orion to Delos, and was ever stimulated by Aphrodite. Cleitus, the son of Mantius, was carried by Eos to the seats of the immortal gods (Od. Tithonus, by whom she became the mother of Emathion and Memnon, was obtained in like manner. She begged of Zeus to make him immortal, but forgot to request him to add eternal youth. So long as he was young and beautiful, she lived with him at the end of the earth, on the banks of Oceanus ; and when he grew old, she nursed him, until at length his voice disappeared and his body became quite dry. She then locked the body up in her chamber, or metamorphosed it into a cricket. Hom. Hymn. in Ven. Horat. Carm. i. 2. Apollod. iii. 1. 2. Hes. Theog. 9. 84; Serv. Virg. Georg. i. 4. Aen. iv. 5. 85.) When her son Memnon was going to fight against Achilles, she asked Hephaestus to give her arms for him, and when Memnon was killed, her tears fell down in the form of morning dew. Virg. Aen. viii. 3. By Astraeus Eos became the mother of Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus, Heosphorus, and the other stars. Hesiod. Theog. 3. Cephalus was carried away by her from the summit of mount Hymetttus to Syria, and by him she became the mother of Phaëton or Tithonus, the father of Phaëton; but afterwards she restored her beloved to his wife Procris. Hes. Theog. 9. 84; Apollod. Paus. i. 3. § 1; Ov. Met. vii. 7. 03, & c.; Hygin. Fab 1. 89.) Eos was represented in the pediment of the kingly stoa at Athens in the act of carrying off Cephalus, and in the same manner she was seen on the throne of the Amyclaean Apollo. Paus. i. 3. § 1, iii. At Olympia she was represented in the act of praying to Zeus for Memnon. In the works of art still extant, she appears as a winged goddess or in a chariot drawn by four horses. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Nyx (Night) and Eos (Dawn), Apulian red- figure krater C4th B. C., Metropolitan Museum of Art. ALTERNATE NAME SPELLINGSTranslation. Dawn (Doric sp.)Dawn (Aeolic sp.)CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTESPARENTAGE OF EOSHesiod, Theogony 3. Evelyn- White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B. C.) : "And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Helius, Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven."Homeric Hymn 3. Helius (trans. Evelyn- White) (Greek epic C7th - 4th B. C.) : "For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy- armed (rhododekhos) Eos (Dawn) and rich- tressed Selene (Moon) and tireless Helios (Sun)."Pseudo- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "The Titanes (Titans) had children . Hyperion and Theia had Eos (Dawn), Helios (Sun), and Selene (Moon)."Pseudo- Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "From Hyperion and Aethra [Clear Blue Sky] : Sol [Helios], Luna [Selene], Aurora [Eos]."Ovid, Fasti 4. Boyle) (Roman poetry C1st B. C. to C1st A. D.) : "When Pallantis (Daughter of Pallas) [i. Eos, Aurora] next gleams in heaven and stars flee."Ovid, Fasti 5. Hyperion's daughter [Eos the Dawn] expels the stars."Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2. Mozley) (Roman epic C1st A. D.) : "The fires of the maid Pallantis (daughter of Pallas) [i. Eos the dawn]."MOTHER OF THE STARS & WINDSHesiod, Theogony 3. Evelyn- White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B. C.) : "And Eos (Dawn) bare to Astraios (Astraeus, the Starry) the strong- hearted Anemoi (Winds), brightening Zephyros (Zephyrus, West Wind), and Boreas (North Wind), headlong in his course, and Notos (Notus, South Wind),- -a goddess mating in love with a god. And after these Erigenia (the Early- Born) [Eos] bare the star Eosphoros (Dawn- bringer) [the planet Venus], and the gleaming Astra (Stars) with which heaven is crowned."Pseudo- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "Eos (Dawn) and Astraios (Astraeus) were parents of Anemoi (Winds) and Astra (Stars)."Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 2. At their mother's [Eos'] hest all the light Aetai (Winds) [Anemoi] of the Dawn took hands, and slid down one long stream of sighing wind to Priamos' (Priam's) plain [to retrieve the body of their dead brother Memnon.]"Pseudo- Hyginus, Preface (trans. Grant) (Roman mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "From Astraeus and Aurora [Eos] : Zephyrus, Boreas, Notus, Favonius [Zephyros]."Pseudo- Hyginus, Astronomica 2. Some have said it [Hesperos (Hesperus)] represents the son of Aurora [Eos] and Cephalus, who surpassed many in beauty."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A. D.) : "[Ariadne abandoned on Naxos by Theseus laments : ] ‘Who stole the man of Athens [Theseus]? If it is Notos (Notus, the South Wind), if bold Euros (Eurus, the East Wind), I appeal to Eos and reproach the mother of the blustering Anemoi (Winds), lovelorn herself.’"APHRODITE & THE CURSE OF EOS Aphrodite placed a curse upon the goddess Eos causing her to fall in love with a train of mortals- -Orion, Tithonos (Tithonus), Kephalos (Cephalus) and Kleitos (Cleitus). Pseudo- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "Eos, whom Aphrodite tormented with constant passion as punishment for sleeping with Ares." LOVE OF EOS & ORIONEos loved the giant Orion, a hunter who was transformed into a constellation at death. Homer, Odyssey 5. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B. C.) : "[Kalypso (Calypso) complains to Hermes : ] ‘You are merciless, you gods, resentful beyond all other beings; you are jealous if without disguise a goddess makes a man her bedfellow, her beloved husband. So it was when Eos of the rosy fingers chose out Orion; you gods who live in such ease yourselves were jealous of her until chaste Artemis in her cloth- of- gold visited him with her gentle shafts and slew him in Ortygia [island of Delos].’"Pseudo- Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A. D.) : "Eos, whom Aphrodite tormented with constant passion as punishment for sleeping with Ares, fell in love with Orion and took him off with her to Delos."Nonnus, Dionysiaca 4. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A. Greatest Warriors History Has Ever Seen. 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