Tithonus

Mortal Trojan prince, brother of Priam. Carried off by Eos who petitioned Zeus for his immortality but forgot to request eternal youth; aged endlessly into a withered creature reduced finally to a cicada's voice.

Children

• Memnon

Domains

• old age
• immortality

Powers

• lives on deathless but ever-aging, withering until only his voice remains

Relations

• sibling: Hicetaon
• lover: EosHom. Il. 11.1; Hymn. Hom. Aphr. 218-238 (primary)
• father of: MemnonHes. Theog. 984; Apollod. 3.12.4 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Homer Iliad 11.1, 20.237; Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite 218-238; Mimnermus fr. 4 W; Sappho fr. 58 (primary)