Editing Eos (section)

=== Etruscan ===
[[File:John Flaxman - The Morn, All Beauteous to Behold, from Aeschylus, The Persians - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''Eos the Morn'', engraving by [[John Flaxman]].]]

Among the [[Etruscans]], the generative dawn-goddess was [[Thesan]]. Depictions of the dawn-goddess with a young lover became popular in Etruria in the fifth century, probably inspired by imported Greek vase-painting.<ref>Marilyn Y. Goldberg, "The 'Eos and Kephalos' from Cære: Its Subject and Date" ''American Journal of Archæology'' '''91'''.4 (October 1987, pp. 605-614) p 607.</ref> Though Etruscans preferred to show the goddess as a nurturer (''Kourotrophos'') rather than an abductor of young men, the late Archaic sculptural [[acroterion]] from Etruscan Cære, now in Berlin, showing the goddess in archaic running pose adapted from the Greeks, and bearing a boy in her arms, has commonly been identified as Eos and Cephalus.<ref>Goldberg 1987:605-614 casts doubt on the boy's identification, in the context of Etruscan and Greek abduction motifs.</ref> On an Etruscan mirror Thesan is shown carrying off a young man, whose name is inscribed as Tinthu.<ref>Noted by Goldberg 1987: in I. Mayer-Prokop, ''Die gravierten etruskischen Griffspiegel archaischen Stils'' (Heidelberg) 1966, fig. 61.</ref>