Cephalus (son of Deion)
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In Greek mythology, Cephalus or Kephalos was the son of Deion, the ruler of Phocis, and Diomede.
Cephalus chased by the goddess Eos on an Attic red-figure hydria by the Niobid Painter, c. 460-450 BC, kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Greece.
Aurora and Cephalus, 1733, by François Boucher
Eos carries off Cephalus, on an Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 470–460 BCE
The Death of Procris by Joachem Wtewael (circa 1595–1600)
Eos
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In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Eos is the goddess and personification of the dawn, who rose each morning from her home at the edge of the river Oceanus to deliver light and disperse the nigh
Cephalus (son of Deion)
…of Phocis; Canes was the husband of Evadne, daughter of Pelias. According to a scholium on Callimachus, he was one of the lovers of the dawn goddess Eos. Athenians localised the myth by asserting that Cephalus was married to Procris, a daughter of Erechtheus, an ancient founding-figure of Athens. The…
Eos in her four-horse-drawn chariot, terracotta red-figure lekanis vase, late 4th century BC, Canosa, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eos by Evelyn De Morgan (1895)
L' Aurore, 1693 bronze statue of Eos by Philippe Magnier (1647–1715), on display at Louvre Museum, France.
Eos, Sig. Guglielmi's drawing of a statue of Aurora by John Gibson (1790–1866).