Editing Thesan (section)

==Mythology==
===The Curse of Aphrodite===

The [[Etruscan civilization|Etruscans]] identified their Thesan with the Greek dawn goddess [[Eos]]. In the Greek legend, [[Aphrodite]] had found Eos in bed with her lover [[Ares]]; to punish [[Eos]], Aphrodite "tormented with constant passion, and Eos became infamous for her many young lovers.<ref name=Bibliotheca/> The Etruscans seemed to quite like these stories and easily transferred them to their dawn goddess Thesan; the stories depicted on the mirrors are generally straight out of Greek myth.<ref name=MacIntoshTurfa-2013/>   Thesan, the goddess of the dawn, “,” is depicted abducting a younger mortal on several engraved Etruscan mirrors dated from 530 to 450 B.C., w