Editing Tithonus (section)

==In modern culture==
* Tithonus as an aged immortal is mentioned in Book I, Canto II, Stanza VII of Edmund Spenser's ''[[The Faerie Queene]]''.
* "[[Tithonus (poem)|Tithonus]]" by [[Alfred Tennyson]] was originally written as "Tithon" in 1833 and completed in 1859.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tithonus.html|title=Victorian Web: Alfred Tennyson's "Tithonus"|accessdate=2006-09-02}}</ref> The poem is a dramatic monologue in [[blank verse]] from the point of view of Tithonus. Unlike the original myth, it is Tithonus who asks for immortality, and it is [[Aurora (mythology)|Aurora]], not Zeus, who grants this imperfect gift. As narrator, Tithonus laments his unnatural longevity, which separates him from the mortal world as well as from the immortal but beautiful Aurora.
* German philosopher [[Johann Gottfried Herder]]'s book "Tithonus und Aurora" was published in 1792.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7lRAAAAcAAJ|title=Tithonus und Aurora|publisher=[[Ettinger]]|year=1792}}</ref>
* "Tithon" is mentioned in the poem "On Imagination" by [[Phillis Wheatley]].
* [[Sappho]]'s "Old Age Poem", sometimes known as the "[[Tithonus poem]]", discusses beauty and ageing.