Tithonus

Tithonus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Tithonus or Tithonos (Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός) was the lover of Eos, Titan[1] of the dawn. He was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo (Στρυμώ). In the mythology known to the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens, Tithonus was envisaged as a rhapsode, as the lyre in his hand, on a...

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Tithonus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Τιθωνός), a son of Laomedon, and brother of Priam (Hom. Il. 20.237), or according to others (Serv. ad Virg. Georg. 1.447, 3.48), a brother of Laomedon. Others, again, call him a son of Cephalus and Eos. (Apollod. 3.14.3.) By the prayers of Eos who loved him he obtained from the immortal gods immortality, but not eternal youth, in consequence ...

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