Talk:Tithonus

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I'd guess that the race of senile immortals in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" comes from this myth as well.

Elettaria (talk) 22:57, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

The moral of the story

Surely there should be some mention of the moral of this story?; 'be careful what you wish for', 'think through the consequences', 'be clear, and logical' etc. Many greek myths have an underlying lesson and there are very many references explaining them this article https://literaryocean.com/bring-out-the-moral-aspect-of-the-poem-tithonus-by-tennyson/ is about a poem by Tennyson exploring the moral of the taleAdagio67 (talk) 10:57, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Etymology

'but it is likely, rather, to have been a masculine form of Eos’s own name, Titonë – from titō, ‘day and onë, ‘queen’ – and to have meant ‘partner of the Queen of Day’.'

This appears to be false and each citation does not support the argument made in this section. Unless I am missing something here, Beekes makes a mention of tito, quoting Furnée which the Wiktionary entry correctly shows. Not too sure from where we are deriving onë in the scholarship of Graves (who is the listed source for this claim). Excellenae (talk) 08:49, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

If the claim that "Titonë" is an epithet of Eos is grounded in fact, then it is not much of a stretch to link "Tithonus" with it on purely grammatical grounds. I cannot see the section of The Greek Myths where this is said, though I do find a snippet view of the name in the index, so it is probably there. If the claim is made, it should be mentioned here, even if it is doubted by other scholars (and it's not clear that it is). Our article on Eos cites a similar statement in Kerenyi; perhaps that citation should be added here. P Aculeius (talk) 14:12, 23 March 2025 (UTC)