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Titon et l'Aurore (English: Tithonus and Aurora) is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the French composer Jean-Joseph de Mondonville which was first performed at the Académie royale de musique in Paris on 9 January 1753.
Aurora was the Roman equivalent of Eos and often substitutes for her as Tithonus's consort. In Greek mythology, Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ("harsh"). Eos, [1] the Greek goddess of the dawn, abducted Ganymede and Tithonus from the royal house of Troy to be her consorts.
"Tithonus" by Alfred Tennyson was originally written as "Tithon" in 1833 and completed in 1859. [17] 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, not Zeus, who grants this imperfect gift. As narrator, Tithonus laments his ...
Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, AurÅra asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he continued to age, eventually becoming forever old.
Eos and Tithonus, by Julien Simon, 1783, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen. The myth about the love of Eos and Tithonus is very old, known as early as Homer, who in the Odyssey described the coming of the new morning as Eos rising from the bed she shares with Tithonus to bring her light to the world. [ 74 ]
The poem's common name comes from the Greek myth of Tithonus, which is mentioned in lines 9 to 12. According to legend Tithonus was a Trojan prince, loved by Eos, the goddess Dawn. She asked that Zeus make her lover immortal; he granted the request, but as she did not ask for eternal youth for Tithonus, he continued to age for eternity.
Son of Aurora and Tithonus and king of Ethiopia, allied with Troy. XIII: 278-600 [151] Mercury: Messenger of the gods, especially of Jupiter. Son of the Pleiade Maia and Jupiter. Roman equivalent of the Greek Hermes. I: 669–713, II: 685–834, IV: 187–754, VIII: 627, XI: 303–307, XIII: 146 [152] [153] Midas: King of Phrygia.
The Cologne papyrus on which the Tithonus poem is preserved was part of a Hellenistic anthology of poetry, [16] and predates the Alexandrian edition. [17] Two fragments list opening lines of poems: Fr. 103 contains openings to ten of Sappho's poems, and Fr. 213C Campbell quotes openings to poems by Sappho, Alcaeus, and Anacreon ; both might be ...