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=== Offspring === Eos married the Titan [[Astraeus]] ("of the stars") and became the mother of the [[Anemoi]] ("winds") namely [[Zephyrus]], [[Boreas (god)|Boreas]], [[Notus]] and [[Eurus]];<ref>[[Fabulae|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface]; [[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 6.18; 37.70, 47.340</ref> of the Morning Star, [[Phosphorus (morning star)|Eosphoros]] ([[Venus]]);<ref>Cicero wrote: ''Stella Veneris, quae Φωσφόρος Graece, Latine dicitur Lucifer, cum antegreditur solem, cum subsequitur autem Hesperos''; The star of Venus, called Φωσφόρος in [[Greek language|Greek]] and Lucifer in Latin when it precedes, Hesperos when it follows the sun – [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/nd2.shtml#53 De Natura Deorum 2, 20, 53].<br/>[[Pliny the Elder]]: ''Sidus appellatum Veneris … ante matutinum exoriens Luciferi nomen accipit … contra ab occasu refulgens nuncupatur Vesper'' (The star called Venus … when it rises in the morning is given the name Lucifer … but when it shines at sunset it is called Vesper) [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0004&query=id%3D%23927 Natural History 2, 36]</ref> of the stars;<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0020.tlg001.perseus-eng1:371-403 378–82]; Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.2.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=2&highlight=Dawn 1.2.4]</ref> and of the virgin goddess of justice, [[Astraea]] ("starry one").<ref>[[Aratus]], ''Phaenomena'' 97–128; [[De astronomia|Hyginus]], ''Astronomica'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.25.1 2.25.1]</ref> Her other notable offspring were [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]]<ref>[[Quintus Smyrnaeus]], ''Posthomerica'' 2.549; [[Pindar]], ''Nemean Odes'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DN.%3Apoem%3D6 6.54]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|Historic Library]]'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#p55 4.75.4]; [[Callistratus (sophist)|Callistratus]], ''Statuaram Descriptiones'' 9; [[Ovid]], ''Fasti'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php#anchor_Toc69367859 4.713]</ref> and [[Emathion]]<ref name=":1">[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D963 985]; [[Pseudo-Apollodorus]], ''Bibliotheca'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.12.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022 3.12.4]</ref> by the [[Troy|Trojan]] prince, Tithonus. Sometimes, [[Hesperus]],<ref>Hyginus, ''Astronomica'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.42.4 2.42.4]</ref> [[Phaethon of Syria|Phaethon]]<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.3.1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 1.3.1]; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D963 986]</ref> and Tithonus (different from her lover),<ref>Pseudo-Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D14%3Asection%3D3 3.14.3]</ref> were said to be the children of Eos by [[Cephalus (son of Hermes)|Prince Cephalus of Athens]].
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