Eos, (Aurora) was a daughter of Titans, Theia and Hyperion. Helios (sun) and Selene (moon) were her brother and sister, while she herself was a personification of the dawn of the morning. A fresh wind was felt at her approach, the morning star Eosphorus (Greek), Lucifer (Roman), still lingered in the sky, and beacuse the ruddy beams appeared like outspread fingers, she was called "rosy-fingered Morn." The star and the winds of the morning, Zephyr, Boreas, Notos, and Euros, were her offspring by the Astraeus (Starry), the Titan of starlight.

      She loved all fresh young life, and showed special favor to those persons whose active spirit led them abroad in the morning to hunt or to make war.Tithonus became her husband, and she lived with him pleasantly beside the Oceanus so long as his youth and beauty lasted. Unfortunately, in obtaining immortality for him from Zeus, she had omitted to add to her request, "and eternal youth." When white hairs appeared, Eos supplied him with him with ambrosia and nectar, but he became quite helpless. To avoid the sight of his decrepitude, he shut him up in a chamber where only his voice was heard like the chirp of a grasshopper into which creature he became. Eos and Tithonos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion. Memnon was celebrated for his beauty. His early death at the hands of Achilles deeply greived his mother. She erected a wonderful monument which when the first rays of the morning sun touched it, gave forth a sound like the snapping of a harp-string.

ACTIVITIES:
Eos activity

KEY TEST WORDS:

Eos (Aurora), goddess of the dawn, who issues in the early morning light.

The Lesser Deities

The Underworld

Footnotes:
In art Eos was represented as a spirited maiden, with large wings, clad in robes of dazzling white and purple, a star or cap on her head, a torch in her hand, and driving in a chariot with four horses, or riding on Pegasus. Other times she appeared floating in the air, and pouring morning dew from a vessel down to earth.

SOURCES:
Jane Smith
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Edward Tripp's "Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology"
"Manual of Mythology" by Alexander S. Murray.