Editing Eos (section)

=== Role in wars ===
[[File:Eos Memnon Louvre G115.jpg|thumb|left|Eos and the slain [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]] on an [[Attica|Attic]] red-figure cup, ca. 490–480 BCE, the so-called "Memnon Pietà" found at [[Capua]] ([[Musée du Louvre|Louvre]]).]]

==== Gigantomachy ====
[[File:Altar_Pérgamo_Eos_06.JPG|thumb|Eos riding sidesaddle, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, [[Pergamon Altar]], [[Pergamon museum]], Berlin]]

Eos played a small role in the battle of the earthborn [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]] against the gods, known as the Gigantomachy, who rose in rebellion. When their mother, the earth goddess [[Gaia]] learned of a prophecy that the giants would perish at the hand of a mortal, Gaia sought to find a herb that would protect them from all harm; thus Zeus ordered Eos, as well as her siblings Selene ([[Moon]]) and Helios ([[Sun]]) not to shine so that she would not be able to seek for it, and harvested all of the plant for himself, denying Gaia the chance to make the Giants indestructible.<ref>Apollodorus, ''[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Bibliotheca]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D6%3Asection%3D1 1.6.2]</ref> Moreover, Eos is seen fighting against the Giants in the south frieze of the [[Pergamon Altar]],<ref>Picón and Hemingway, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vr3WCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 47]; ''[[Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae|LIMC]]'' 617 [https://weblimc.org/page/monument/2071289 Eos 45] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716120337/https://weblimc.org/page/monument/2071289 |date=2023-07-16 }}</ref> which depicts the Gigantomachy, where she rides hither on either a horse or a mule<ref name=":hon">{{cite book | last = Honan | pages = [https://archive.org/details/guidetopergamonm00perg/page/20/mode/2up?q=&view=theater 20-21] | first = Mary McMahon | title = Guide to the Pergamon Museum | publisher =  [[De Gruyter]] | date = 1904 | isbn = 9783112399330}}</ref> right ahead of Helios, swinging herself on the back of her mount while a Giant already lies on the ground underneath her; a robe wound around her hips serves as her saddle-cloth.<ref>Schmidt, p. 22</ref> She is joined in fight against the Giants by her siblings, her mother Theia, and possibly, conjectured due to the disembodied wing to the right of Eos's shoulder, the goddess Hemera.<ref name=":hon"/>

==== Trojan War ====
According to Hesiod, by her lover Tithonus, Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion.<ref name=":1"/> Memnon, king of [[Aethiopia]], joined the Trojans in the [[Trojan War]] and fought against [[Achilles]] in battle. Much like [[Thetis]], the mother of Achilles, did before her, Eos asked the smithing god [[Hephaestus]] with tears in her eyes to forge an armor for Memnon, and he, moved, did as told.<ref name=":arct"/><ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/245#8.370 8.384]</ref> [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions images of Thetis and Eos both begging Zeus on behalf of their sons.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D5%3Achapter%3D22%3Asection%3D2 5.22.2]</ref> In the end, it was Achilles who triumphed and slew Memnon in battle. Mourning greatly over the death of her son, Eos made the light of her brother, Helios the god of the sun, to fade, and begged Nyx, the goddess of the night, to come out earlier, so she could be able to freely steal her son's body undetected by the armies.<ref>[[Philostratus of Lemnos]], ''[[Imagines (work by Philostratus)|Imagines]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/225#1.7.2 1.7.2]</ref> After his death, Eos, perhaps with the help of [[Hypnos]] (Sleep) and [[Thanatos]] (Death), transported Memnon's dead body back to Aethiopia;<ref>Currie, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zTtaKhpwoP4C&pg=PA51 51]</ref> she also asked Zeus to make her son immortal, and he granted her wish.<ref name=":arct">[[Arctinus of Miletus]], ''[[Aethiopis]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607190115/http://www.stoa.org/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Stoa:text:2003.01.0004:account=2 summary]</ref> Eos' role in the Trojan War saga mirrors that of Thetis herself; both are goddesses married to aging old men, both see their mortal sons die on the battlefield, and both arrange an afterlife/immortality of sorts for said sons.<ref>Price and Zelnick-Abramovitz, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1oTxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT94 94], "The two mothers, Thetis and Eos, are alike as well."</ref>