Eos - Consorts/Children

In Greek mythology, the goddess of the dawn, daughter of Helios, mother of Memnon. She abducted various mortals. When she took Tithonus, Zeus granted her request that he should be made immortal, but she forgot to ask for perpetual youth, so he grew older and older, finally shrinking to no more than a voice or, possibly, the cicada.

Eos ("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun. Eos is cognate to Latin Aurora and to Vedic Ushas.

Quintus Smyrnaeus pictured her exulting in her heart over the radiant horses (Lampos and Phaithon) that drew her chariot, amidst the bright-haired Horai, the feminine Hours, climbing the arc of heaven and scattering sparks of fire (1.48).

She is most often associated with her Homeric epithet "rosy-fingered" (rhododactylos), but Homer also calls her Eos Erigeneia:

"That brightest of stars appeared, Eosphoros, that most often heralds the light of early-rising Dawn (Eos Erigeneia)." —Odyssey 13.93

And Hesiod: "And after these Erigeneia ["Early-born"] bore the star Eosphorus ("Dawn-bringer"), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned."

—Theogony 378-382

Thus Eos, preceded by the Morning Star, is seen as the genetrix of all the stars;

Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia (or Pallas and Styx) and sister of Helios the sun and Selene the moon, "who shine upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven" Hesiod told in Theogony (371-374).

Eos was free with her favors and had many consorts, both among the generation of Titans and among the handsomest mortals. With Aeolus, the keeper of the winds, she bore all the winds and stars. Eos kidnapped Cephalus, Clitus, Ganymede, and Tithonus to be her lovers.

Tithonus and Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion.

Eos kidnapped Cephalus when he was hunting. Although Cephalus was already married to Procris, he had a relationship with Eos for some time and she bore him three sons, but he then began pining for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to her - and put a curse on them.

In the more restrictive Hellenic world, Apollodorus, a later Greek poet, claimed, in an anecdote rather than a myth, that her disgraceful abandon was a torment from Aphrodite, who found her on the couch with Ares.

Her Roman equivalent was Aurora, her Etruscan equivalent was Thesan.

With Zeus, Eos had a daughter named Ersa.

Consorts/Children

With Aeolus Boreas Eurus Heosphorus Notus All the stars Zephyrus Tithonus Emathion Memnon Cephalus Phaeton Tithonos Hesperus With Zeus Ersa Carae