Editing Eos (section)

== Iconography ==
[[File:Greek - Hydria with the Fight of Achilles and Memnon Walters 482230 reduced glare white bg.png|thumb|The fight of Achilles and Memnon, in the presence of their mothers Thetis and Eos, late [[Ancient Corinth|Corinthian]] [[Black-Figure]] hydria, circa 575-550 BC, now in the [[Walters Art Museum]].]]

Eos was imagined as a woman wearing a [[saffron (color)|saffron]] mantle as she spread dew from an upturned urn, or with a torch in hand, riding a chariot.<ref>Roberts, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=0fq1fPD-itIC&pg=PT567 567]</ref> Greek and Italian vases show Eos/Aurora on a chariot preceding Helios, as the morning star [[Eosphorus]] flies with her; she is winged, wearing a fine pleated tunic and mantle.<ref>Collignon, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=srufAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA176 176]</ref> Eos is not an uncommon figure, especially on [[Red-figure pottery|red-figure vases]]; as a single figure she appears rising from the sea in, or driving, a four-horse chariot like her brother Helios, sometimes carrying two [[hydria]]e from which she pours morning dew.<ref>Walters, p. [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/n107/mode/2up?view=theater 79]</ref> Because [[Hermes]]' [[Caduceus|rod]] had the power to both induce sleep to mortals and wake them up, some times he is seen preceding the chariot of Eos (and that of Helios) as the new day breaks.<ref>Savignoni, [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0EaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA272 p. 272]</ref>

[[File:Éósz.png|thumb|left|''Eos in her chariot'', red-figure pot]]

Although the romantic adventures of Eos is a common subject in pottery, so far as it is known, no vase depicts her with Orion or Cleitus, known lovers of hers, instead those vases fall into groups; those that depict Eos with a young hunter identified as Cephalus, and those that depict Eos with a youth holding a lyre, identified as Tithonus.<ref name=":pach">Pache, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=TWNftRFa9OMC&pg=PA131 131]</ref> Sometimes those vases bear inscriptions, and on a few the hunter is identified as Tithonus, while the lyre-player is Cephalus.<ref name=":pach"/> Perhaps the earliest representation of this theme is found on a [[red-figure]] ''[[rhyton]]'', a statuette-vase, from circa 480-470 BC in which Eos is depicted carrying of a naked boy, perhaps Cephalus, her wings spread and her feet barely touching the ground.{{sfn|Cohen|2006|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=SCA2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA280 280–281]}} The image of Eos pursuing Tithonus was eerily repetitive in ancient art, as was that of erotic pursuit in general; Tithonus was drawn running off to the right in terror, or trying to clobber with a lyre or a spear the pursuing Eos, indicating the terrifying aspect of a mortal man being taken by a goddess.<ref>Reitzammer, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=F0cxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 41]</ref> The image of [[Zeus]], the active ''[[erastes (Ancient Greece)|erastes]]'', pursuing [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]], the passive ''[[eromenos]]'', was also common, but in the case of Eos, the female figure was put in the dominant position.<ref>Reitzammer, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=F0cxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41 122]</ref>

Other depictions of mythological scenes that include Eos are Memnon's battle with Achilles and Eos' pleading of Zeus for his safety, her seizing of Memnon's dead body, and the ''[[apotheosis]]'' of [[Alcmene]] (the mother of [[Heracles]]).<ref>Walters, p. [https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/80/mode/2up?view=theater 80]</ref> Among Theia and Hyperion's children, she is the only one depicted with wings, as neither her brother nor her sister ever sport some in art.<ref name=":hr46"/>