In Greek mythology, Tithonus was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo. The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painter
Attic red-figure kylix with Eos and Tithonus, 5th century BC (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Eos pursues the reluctant Tithonus, who holds a lyre, on an Attic oinochoe of the Achilles Painter, c. 470–460 BC (Louvre).
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
Tithonus
…In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός, romanized: Tithonos) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn. He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ). The mythology reflected by the fifth-century…
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).