Tithonus

Tithonus
Attic red-figure kylix with Eos and Tithonus, 5th century BC (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Genealogy
Parents	Laomedon of Troy and Strymo
Siblings	Priam, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Hesione, Cilla, Astyoche, Proclia, Aethilla, Clytodora
Consort	Eos
Children	Memnon, Emathion

In Greek mythology, Tithonus (/tɪˈθoʊnəs/ or /taɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Τιθωνός, romanized: Tithonos) was the lover of Eos, Goddess of the Dawn.^[i] He was a prince of Troy, the son of King Laomedon by the Naiad Strymo (Στρυμώ).^[ii] The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a rhapsode, as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, circa 470–460 BC.

An asteroid (6998) has been named after Tithonus.

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