Tithonus
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In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; ) 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-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a rhapsode, as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, circa 470–460 BC.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.name
- Tithonus
- Deity.image
- Red-figure kylix Eos and Tithonos (Boston MFA 95.28) (cropped).jpg
- Deity.caption
- Attic red-figure kylix with Eos and Tithonus, 5th century BC (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Deity.consort
- Eos
- Deity.parents
- Laomedon of Troy and Strymo
- Deity.siblings
- Priam, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Hesione, Cilla, Astyoche, Proclia, Aethilla, Clytodora
- Deity.children
- Memnon, Emathion
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- Mythology
- In culture
- In modern culture
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In Greek mythology, Tithonus ( or ; ) 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-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a rhapsode, as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, circa 470–460 BC.
An asteroid (6998) has been named after Tithonus.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tithonus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.