Tithonus
Also known as Tithonos
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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- 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.