Eos

Eos (Ionic and Homeric Greek: Ἠώς, Ēōs; Attic: Ἕως, Éōs; Aeolic: Αὔως, Aúōs; Doric: Ἀώς, Āṓs) is the goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of the Titans Hyperion and Theia. She is the sister of Helios, god of the sun, and Selene, goddess of the moon. 

Myth

Eos leaves her home, which was at the edge of ocean, every morning to wake her brother, Helios. She opens the gates of heaven so that Helios can ride his chariot across the sky each day.

Eos Media

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  Eos by Evelyn De Morgan (1895)

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  L' Aurore, 1693 bronze statue of Eos by Philippe Magnier (1647–1715), on display at Louvre Museum, France.

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  Eos in front of the chariot of the Sun, Wiesbaden Kurhaus.

• A terracotta lekanis dish depicting dawn eos on chariot with four horses eros a woman and a swan late 4th century metropolitan museum of art cropped detail eos.jpg

  Eos in her four horse-drawn chariot, terracotta red-figure lekanis vase, late 300s BC, Canosa, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Eos pouring the morning dew dressed in a starsprinkled robe, from an antique vase

• Eos and Tithonus, by Julien Simon, 1783, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.

Related pages

• Aurora - Roman mythology version of Eos.
• Thesan - Etruscan mythology version of Eos.