Eos

Role: goddess · First appears: Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2

Eos was born to Hyperion and Euryphaessa, alongside Selene and Helios. Later, she asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, and he granted her wish. They lived together by the streams of Ocean; as age overtook him, Eos kept away from his bed but continued to care for him, and when he could no longer move, she shut him in a room.

In The Aethiopis, Eos’s son Memnon came to aid the Trojans wearing armour made by Hephaestus. Eos obtained immortality from Zeus and bestowed it upon Memnon.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, and Zeus granted her wish.(Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2)
  • With: Tithonus 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: Tithonus
  • “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: Tithonus
  • “she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors.”
• Euryphaessa gave birth to Eos, Selene, and Helios.(Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios)
  • With: Hyperion Euryphaessa Selene Helios
  • “who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos and rich-tressed Selene and tireless Helios”
• Eos obtains immortality from Zeus and bestows it upon Memnon.(The Aethiopis)
  • With: Memnon
  • “Eos then obtains of Zeus and bestows upon her son immortality”

Homeric Hymn V · To Aphrodite · Part 2

• courtship with Tithonus “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”

Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios

• parent: Hyperion “For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos”
• parent: Euryphaessa “For Hyperion wedded glorious Euryphaessa, his own sister, who bare him lovely children, rosy-armed Eos”

The Aethiopis

• child: Memnon “Then Memnon, the son of Eos, wearing armour made by Hephaestus, comes to help the Trojans”

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