EOS

 Eos, or, according to Homer, “rosy-fingered dawn” is a goddess/titaness associated—you’ve guessed it—with the break of day. She had the all-important role of opening the gates of the sun so that her brother Helios could ride through them pulling the orb across the sky with his golden chariot. What, you thought that was Apollo? The two did seem to get confused and even merged as mythology went on.

She was rumored to be a very beautiful woman who flitted about with the wings of a giant white bird…or even, dare I say it?…an angel! The dew was said to be her tears.

She was also said to have a pretty health appetite for beautiful young men. Hey, why should the gods have all the fun?

Well, okay, in this case the appetite was apparently Aphrodite’s curse over Eos’s affair with her lover Ares. As usual, though, it was the mortals who paid the price. Eos flew off with a few of the young men who caught her eye (like Cephalus who happened to already be married). With her lover Tithonus, she begged for and received for him immortality, but she forgot to include eternal youth. He was none too happy to live out his eternal march of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrows as a helpless old man.

Aka: Aurora, Thesan