Second-generation Titan goddess of Dawn, daughter of Hyperion and Theia, consort of Astraeus and mother of the winds and stars; she rises from beside Tithonus to bring light to gods and mortals.1
Theia bore Eos to Hyperion beside great Helios and clear Selene. She shines upon all who live on earth and upon the deathless gods in wide heaven. Pseudo-Apollodorus agrees that Dawn is their daughter, while Hyginus substitutes Aethra for Theia.2⚖
Joined with Astraeus, Eos bore Zephyrus, Boreas and Notus, then the Dawn-bringer and the gleaming stars. Each morning in Homer she rises from her couch beside lordly Tithonus to bring light to immortals and mortal men.3
Her loves repeatedly draw mortals away from their homes. She carried Tithonus to Ethiopia and bore Emathion and Memnon; she also carried off Orion and Cephalus. In Pseudo-Apollodorus Aphrodite condemns Dawn to perpetual desire because she had slept with Ares.4
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