Tithonus

Role: mortal of Anchises’ race · First appears: Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2

Life events

• Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, and Zeus granted her wish.(Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2)
  • With: Eos Zeus
  • “And she went to ask the dark-clouded Son of Cronos that he should be deathless and live eternally; and Zeus bowed his head to her prayer and fulfilled her desire.”
• Eos kept Tithonus from her bed as age overtook him, though she continued to care for him.(Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2 · 📍 by the streams of Ocean)
  • With: Eos
  • “But when the first grey hairs began to ripple from his comely head and noble chin, queenly Eos kept away from his bed, though she cherished him in her house and nourished him with food and ambrosia and gave him rich clothing.”
• Eos shut Tithonus in a room when old age left him unable to move.(Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2)
  • With: Eos
  • “she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors.”

Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2

• courtship with Eos “So while he enjoyed the sweet flower of life he lived rapturously with golden-throned Eos, the early-born, by the streams of Ocean, at the ends of the earth”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.