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Tithonus

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Tithonus

In Greek mythology, a son of Laomedon, King of Troy. He was loved by the goddess Eos who won for him, from Zeus, the gift of immortality. He grew hideously old and she turned him into a grasshopper.



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984-991) And Eos bare to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, and the Lord Emathion.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
AND now as Dawn rose from her couch beside Tithonus, harbinger of light alike to mortals and immortals, Jove sent fierce Discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
Aurora forgot to ask youth for her lover, and though Tithonus is immortal, he is old.
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