In the Greek Mythology, Tithon (in Greek old Τιθωνός / Tithônós ) is the son of Laomédon, king of Troy, and the brother of Priam.

He is married with Éos (Dawn), which removed it according to certain versions, and of which he had two wire: Memnon and Émathion. Éos required for him immortality, which Zeus granted. On the other hand, she forgot to also claim eternal youth: Tithon ages and was desiccated until being transformed (or being transformed) into cicada.

Its name is evoked in particular by Homère, like proof, with the removal of Ganymède by Zeus, of the attachment carried by the gods in Troyens.

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• (III, 12,3-4).

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• (XX, 237), (V, 1).
• ( Aphrodite , v. 218 and suiv.).
• (XV, 279).
• (I, 461; III, 403; VI, 473).
• (v. 446).