Eos
Also known as: Dawn / Dawn divine / Dawn-goddess / Dawn-queen / Divine Dawn / Lady of Light / Lady of the Morn / Queen of Dawn / Rose Dawn / the Dawn-goddess / the Dawn-queen / the Lady of the Dawn · Family: Gods · Role: goddess · First appears: Book II · Part 1
In Book II, Memnon is called the strong son of the Lady of the Dawn. After his death at Priam’s plain, Eos sent the winds to carry his body from the battlefield; she then changed the Aethiops mourning him into birds that circled his barrow. When Zeus threatened her, Eos resumed her daily course, opening the ethereal gates and flashing through them in splendour. In Book VI, she is described as rising from Ocean and Tithonus’ bed.
Relationship record
Life events
- The winds carried Memnon's body away from the battlefield.(Book II · Part 4 · 📍 Priam's plain)
- With: Memnon
- “At their mother's hest All the light Breathings of the Dawn took hands, And slid down one long stream of sighing wind To Priam's plain, and floated round the dead, And softly, swiftly caught they up, and bare Through silver mists the Dawn-queen's son”
- Eos changed the Aethiops who mourned their lord into birds.(Book II · Part 5)
- “As they wailed Unceasingly, the Dawn-queen lovely-eyed Changed them to birds sweeping through air around The barrow of the mighty dead.”
- Zeus's threat made Eos resume her daily course.(Book II · Part 5)
- With: Zeus
- “Nor the Dawn-queen forgat her daily course, But quailed before the unbending threat of Zeus,”
- Eos opened the ethereal gates and flashed through them in splendour.(Book II · Part 5)
- “Then she herself flung wide the ethereal gates, And, scattering spray of splendour, flashed there-through.”
Book II · Part 1
- child: Memnon “The strong son of the Lady of the Dawn”
Book II · Part 2
- child: Memnon “But on the other side the hero child Of the Dawn-goddess slew the Argive men,”
Book II · Part 3
- child: Memnon “Of birth divine am I, The Dawn-queen's mighty son, nurtured afar”
Book II · Part 4
- child: Memnon (The Dawn-queen is Dawn.) “And softly, swiftly caught they up, and bare Through silver mists the Dawn-queen's son, with hearts Sore aching for their brother's fall, while moaned Around them all the air.”
Book II · Part 5
- with Zeus (Zeus's threat compels Eos to continue her daily course.) “But quailed before the unbending threat of Zeus,”
Book IV · Part 1
- child: Memnon “And how he smote down Hector; how he slew Penthesileia, and the godlike son Of splendour-throned Dawn;--all this he sang”
Book VI · Part 1
- with Tithonus (Dawn rises from Tithonus' bed.) “Rose Dawn from Ocean and Tithonus' bed,”
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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.