Eos (Aurora)

Eos in Wikipedia

Eos (Greek Ἠώς, or Ἕως "dawn") is, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess[1] 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. The Greek worship of the dawn as a goddess is believed to be inherited from Indo-European times. The name Eos is cognate to Latin Auro...

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Eos in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἠώς), in Latin Aurora, the goddess of the morning red, who brings up the light of day from the east. She was a daughter of Hyperion and Theia or Euryphassa, and a sister of Helios and Selene. (Hes. Th. 371, &c.; Hom. Hymn in Sol. ii.) Ovid (Ov. Met. 9.420, Fast. 4.373) calls her a daughter of Pallas. At the close of night she rose front t...

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