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TITHONUS , in See also: Greek Iegend, according to See also:Homer son of See also:Laomedon, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Troy and See also:husband of Eos (the See also:morning). In the Homeric Hymn to See also:Aphrodite, Eos is said to have carried him off because of his See also:great beauty. She entreated See also:Zeus that he might live for ever; this was granted, but she forgot to ask
for immortal youth for him. He became a hideous old See also:man; Eos then shut him up in a chamber; his See also:voice " flowed on unceasingly," but his limbs were helpless. A later development is the See also:change of Tithonus into a See also:grasshopper, after Eos had been obliged to wrap him like a See also:child in swaddling-clothes and to put him to See also:sleep in a See also:kind of See also:cradle. He was probably associated with the Trojan royal See also:house, since the inhabitants of the See also:original See also:home of the See also:legend (probably central or See also:northern See also:Greece) looked upon the See also:East, the See also:land of the morning, as the home of Eos. In some versions she is said to have carried him away still farther East, to the land of See also:Ethiopia near the ocean streams; this is euhemeristically referred by Diodorus Siculus to an expedition undertaken against Ethiopia by Tithonus, son of Laomedon.
It is probable that Tithonus was originally a See also:sun-See also:god ; the scholiast on Iliad, xi. 5, who calls him Titan, identifies him with See also:Apollo, and there are many points of resemblance between him and the sun-god Helios. The See also:story is generally regarded as an allegorical See also:representation of the fresh morning sun dried up by the See also:heat of the advancing See also:day. Possibly it is merely intended as a warning to mortals not to unite with immortals, lest they incur the See also:jealousy and wrath of the gods.
See Homer, Iliad, xi. 1, xix. 237; Hymn in Venerem, 219 sqq., with See also: - ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen and Sikes's notes; See also:Apollodorus iii. 12, 4; Diod. Siculus iv. 95; See also:Horace, Odes, ii. 16, 3o; See also:Propertius iii. to (18) ; O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie, i. 313, n. 16, who attributes a Milesian origin to the story ; articles" Eos " by Rapp in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie and by Escher in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie.
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