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    "Who is Eos?",
    "Who are the parents of Eos?",
    "Who are the children of Eos?",
    "What happened to Tithonus?",
    "Why did Artemis kill Orion?",
    "Where does Eos live?",
    "Is Eos the same as Aurora?"
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      "text": "\"Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bore great Helius … and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods\" (Theog. 371–374); the Hymn to Helios makes the mother Euryphaessa (HH31 4–7) and Apollodorus Thia (Apollod. 1.2.2).",
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      "text": "\"Eos bore to Astraeus the strong-hearted winds, brightening Zephyrus, and Boreas, headlong in his course, and Notus\", and then \"the star Eosphorus (Dawn-bringer), and the gleaming stars with which heaven is crowned\" (Theog. 378–382); Apollodorus: \"to Dawn and Astraeus were born winds and stars\" (Apollod. 1.2.4).",
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      "text": "Her mortal lovers gave her sons: \"Eos bore to Tithonus brazen-crested Memnon, king of the Ethiopians, and the Lord Emathion. And to Cephalus she bore a splendid son, strong Phaethon\", whom Aphrodite carried off to keep her shrine (Theog. 984–991).",
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      "text": "The Hymn to Aphrodite tells Tithonus's fate: Eos asked Zeus \"that he should be deathless and live eternally\", but \"thought not in her heart to ask youth for him\"; when old age came she \"laid him in a room and put to the shining doors. There he babbles endlessly\" (HH5 218–238).",
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      "id": "c5",
      "text": "Homer opens two books with her: \"Now Dawn rose from her couch from beside lordly Tithonus, to bring light to immortals and to mortal men\" (Il. 11.1–2; Od. 5.1–2). Calypso adds that \"when rosy-fingered Dawn took to herself Orion, ye gods that live at ease begrudged her, till in Ortygia chaste Artemis … slew him\" (Od. 5.121–124).",
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      "id": "c6",
      "text": "Her home is in the east: Odysseus comes to \"the Aeaean isle, where is the dwelling of early Dawn and her dancing-lawns, and the risings of the sun\" (Od. 12.3–4); the Hymn places Tithonus with her \"by the streams of Ocean, at the ends of the earth\" (HH5 225–227).",
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      "confidence": 0.9
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    "Sister of Sun and Moon; mother of the winds and stars by Astraeus (Theog. 378–382) and of Memnon by Tithonus (Theog. 984–985).",
    "The Tithonus story — immortality without youth — is the Hymn to Aphrodite's, not Homer's, though Homer knows the couch (HH5 218–238; Il. 11.1).",
    "Her lovers are mortals, and the gods resent it enough to have Orion killed (Od. 5.121–124)."
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      "q": "What happened to Tithonus?",
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      "q": "Why did Artemis kill Orion?",
      "claim": "c5"
    },
    {
      "q": "Where does Eos live?",
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  "winning_edge": "Locates the Tithonus tale in the one text that tells it and separates it from the Homeric formula that merely names the couch.",
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  "last_verified": "2026-09-03",
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