Eos

Goddess of dawn. Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia. The Romans identified her as Aurora.

Some say that she brought dawn by riding her chariot across the sky, while others say that she was a winged-goddess. Her horses that pull her chariot were called Lampus and Phaethon.

Eos was the sister of Helius and Selene. She bore to Astraeüs (Astraeus) – Boreas, Notus and Zephyrus (north, south and west winds), and the stars, including the planet Venus, known as the morning star, by the name of Eosphorus, ´Εωσφορος "Dawn-bringer" or Phosphorus Ψοσφορος "Light-bringer". Phosphorus is translated into Latin as Lucifer "Light-bringer". Lucifer was later a name assigned to the Christian personification of evil - Satan or the Devil - because of the verse in Isaiah 14:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Isaiah 14:12 (KJV)

Aphrodite punished Eos for making love to Aphrodite's long-time lover Ares, god of war. Aphrodite inflicted her with amorous desire for mortals.

Eos also fell in love with a mortal king named Tithonus, the son of the Trojan king Laomedon, who was therefore the brother of Priam. Eos was the mother of Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians in the Trojan War. Her son was killed by Achilles during the last year of the war.

Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth as well, so Tithonus turned into a shrivelled old man, wasting away. Eos turned him into a cicada.

Other possible lovers of Eos were Cephalus, husband of Procris; the giant hunter Orion, and Cleitus, descendant of Melampus.