Eos’s Family Tree

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Family

• Astraeus(spouse),Boreas(child),Eurus(child),Notus(child),Zephyrus(child)— Marriage

  Astraeus and Eos are the parents of the four Anemoi: Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus, and Eurus, the gods who control the directional winds.

• Hyperion(parent),Theia(parent),Helios(sibling),Selene(sibling)— Marriage

  Hyperion and Theia, Titans of heavenly light, were parents of Helios the sun, Selene the moon, and Eos the dawn.

• Tithonus(spouse),Memnon(child)— Consort

  Memnon was born to Eos, goddess of the dawn, and the Trojan prince Tithonus. Through his father, Memnon was kin to the Trojan royal house and came to their aid in the war.

• Orion(spouse)— Consort

  Eos, goddess of the dawn, took Orion as her lover and carried him off to Delos, until Artemis slew the hunter with her arrows on Ortygia.

Equivalent to

• Aurora(Roman),Eostre(Germanic),Thesan(Etruscan),Ushas(Hindu)

  Ushas, Eos, Aurora, Thesan, and Eostre are the Vedic, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, and Germanic dawn goddesses — all descending from the Proto-Indo-European *H̥‚̥́ewsōs, the divine dawn who drives darkness before her and heralds the sun's daily rise.

Associated with

• Endymion

  Selene and her sister Eos both loved mortal men of exceptional beauty. Eos took Tithonus and asked Zeus for his immortality but forgot to request eternal youth; Selene asked instead for Endymion's eternal sleep.

• Eurybia

  Eos married Eurybia's son Astraeus, making Eurybia the grandmother of the Anemoi (winds) and the astral gods. Through this lineage, Eurybia's sea power extends into the celestial and atmospheric domains.

• Ganymede

  In some traditions, including a passage in the Little Iliad, Eos abducted Ganymede before Zeus claimed the youth for Olympus. The gods of dawn and sky competed for the most beautiful mortal.

• Hemera

  Hemera is sometimes conflated with Eos in ancient sources, but Hesiod distinguishes them: Eos is the Titan who heralds sunrise, while Hemera is the primordial personification of daylight itself. Pausanias (1.3.1) records that some identified the two.

• Memnon

  Eos mourned Memnon after Achilles slew him at Troy. Her tears became the morning dew, and Zeus granted Memnon immortality at her plea. Birds called Memnonides were said to rise from his pyre.