Tithonus

deity sky Greek single tradition · 4

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1239 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Referenced in archaic texts.

Relationships

parent of
Memnum
consort of
Eos
enemy of
Hours

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Sources

Source passages

“Karl Kerenyi observes that Tito shares a linguistic origin with Eos's lover Tithonus, which belonged to an older, pre-Greek language.”

#18156 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example: Glaucus.”

#26244 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Tennyson described "Tithonus" in a letter as "a pendent to the "Ulysses" in my former volumes." Tithonus's character offers a strong contrast to that of Ulysses. The two poems are matched and opposed as the utterances of Greek and Trojan, victor and vanquished, hero and victim.”

#40011 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001