Definition: Eos was the Greek goddess of the dawn and equated by the Romans with Aurora. Eos is either a winged goddess or she rides a chariot across the sky bringing in the dawn. Her horses are Lampus and Phaethon, in the Odyssey.
Eos had Tithonus, Orion, Kleitus, and Kephalus (to whom she bore Phaethon), as human lovers. Eos is the third child of Hyperion, with Helios (sun) and Selene (moon) as siblings.
In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Eos often crosses the sky to mark the beginning of a new day's or book's adventures.
Source: Timothy Ganz Early Greek Myth
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Eos is often described as Rosy-fingered as in "rosy-fingered dawn."
