person
Tithonus
also: Τιθωνός
A mortal of the Trojan royal line carried off by the dawn-goddess Eos, who won him immortality from Zeus but forgot to ask for eternal youth; he shrivels with endless old age while his voice alone remains, a warning example Aphrodite gives Anchises.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §5.202 Tithonus
A mortal of the Trojan royal line carried off by the dawn-goddess Eos, who won him immortality from Zeus but forgot to ask for eternal youth; he shrivels with endless old age while his voice alone remains, a warning example Aphrodite gives Anchises.
- The Odyssey §5.1 lordly Tithonus
The mortal Dawn loved and won immortality (but not eternal youth) for; her bed beside him opens the book.