Eos vs Selene

The goddess of dawn, sister of Helios and Selene, who rises each morning from the bed of her mortal consort Tithonus to bring light to gods and men. Homer's formula 'rosy-fingered Dawn' marks the start of countless days in the Iliad and Odyssey.

Eos was born to the Titans Hyperion and Theia with her siblings Helios and Selene. Each morning she rises from the streams of Ocean at the eastern edge of the world to announce the sun.

Eos is the dawn made divine. Hesiod names her with Helios and Selene as a child of Hyperion and Theia, and he also makes her mother of the winds and the stars by the Titan Astraeus. In Homer she is chiefly a time-marker: the formula of 'early-born, rosy-fingered Dawn' opens new days again and again in the *Iliad* and the *Odyssey*.

The Titan-born goddess of the moon, daughter of Hyperion and Theia and sister of Helios and Eos. She drives her team across the night sky, and poets tell of her love for the sleeping shepherd Endymion.

Selene was born to the Titans Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios the sun and Eos the dawn. The Homeric Hymn to Selene adds that Zeus lay with her and that she bore a daughter, Pandia.

Selene is the moon itself, imagined as a goddess who bathes in Ocean and drives her horses across the sky at night. Hesiod places her with Helios and Eos among the children of Hyperion and Theia. The *Homeric Hymn to Selene* describes the radiance from her head filling the air and calls her full moon a sign and token to mortals, since the month was counted by her phases.