Eos

Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister to Helios and Selene. Each morning, she rose from her bed at the edge of the ocean, yoked her horses to her chariot, and rode across the sky ahead of her brother Helios, painting the heavens with the colors of dawn.

Homer's frequent epithet for her — "rosy-fingered Dawn" — is one of the most famous phrases in literature. She appeared as a beautiful woman in saffron robes, her fingers trailing streaks of pink and gold across the morning sky.

Eos was cursed by Aphrodite with an insatiable desire for mortal men. She carried off several lovers, most notably Tithonus, a Trojan prince. She begged Zeus to make Tithonus immortal but forgot to ask for eternal youth. As the centuries passed, Tithonus aged and shriveled until Eos, pitying him, transformed him into a cicada — still alive, still chirping, but no longer truly living.