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
- co occurs with
- Tito, Aristaeus, Ganymede, Heracles, Psyche, Glaucus, Asclepius, Ariadne, Zeus, Apollo
- consort of
- Eos
- enemy of
- Hours
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (4)
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