what's the name of the greek goddess whose human lover was given the gift of immortality by zeus?

Question

the goddess human lover became immortal but his body aged and contracted age related diseases etc.

Answer 1

It was Eos.

Eos ("dawn") was, in Greek mythology, the Titan goddess of the dawn, who rose from her home at the edge of Oceanus, the Ocean that surrounds the world, to herald her brother Helios, the sun. As the dawn goddess, she opened the gates of heaven (with "rosy fingers") so that Helios could ride his chariot across the sky every day.

Eos was the daughter of Hyperion and Theia (or Pallas and Styx) and sister of Helios the sun and Selene the moon. The generation of Titans preceded all the familiar deities of Olympus, who supplanted them.

Eos was free with her favors and had many consorts, both among the generation of Titans and among the handsomest mortals. With Aeolus, the keeper of the winds, she bore all the winds and stars. Her passion for the Titan Orion was unrequited. Eos kidnapped Cephalus, Clitus, Ganymede, and Tithonus to be her lovers. Eos' most faithful consort was Tithonus, from whose couch the poets imagine her arising. When Zeus stole Ganymede from her to be his cup-bearer, she asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. Tithonus indeed lived forever but grew more and more ancient, eventually turning into a cricket.

Tithonus and Eos had two sons, Memnon and Emathion. Memnon fought among the Trojans in the Trojan War and was slain. Her image with the dead Memnon across her knees, like Thetis with the dead Achilles, are icons that inspired the Christian Pietà.

Answer 2

That is Eos, Goddess of Dawn, daughther of the Titans Thea and Hyperion, sister of Selene (moon) and Helios (sun) and mother of the winds and the morning star as well as various mortal kings. She was cursed with nymphomania by Aphrodite (Aphrodite has the best curses). She had many lovers, but the one you're asking about was named Thithonus. He eventually became so old and withered that he could do nothing but babble nonsense and turned into a cricket.

Endymion mentioned above as Eos's sister's lover... Selene, the moon, came upon him asleep and loved him and wished him to always be as he was, and so he was, young, beautiful, asleep for eternity. Not a very lively lover, though he still managed to get her pregnant quite a few times.

Ganymede has nothing to do with this question.

Answer 3

properly, were it no longer for divorce and a pissed driver, we may properly have had a Queen Diana married to the great of the Church of england... what else do we've... Athena has fallen out of use, as has Minerva (Minnie). Phoebe (minor goddess) continues to be going good, as is sunrise (Latinisation of the sunrise-goddess Eos). No Artemis as such, Aphrodite has been used yet is uncommon, Persephone has been known, Hermione became a nymph, some human beings use the goddess-call Eris - there is an actress said as Eris gray, is there no longer? - Penelope continues to be installation there, Ceres/Demeter is an outdoors probability...

Answer 4

Ganymede, which is either a male or a female...depending on which outline you read. Basically, Ganymede, is androgynous. But like with other Deities, they can be either male or female. Ganymede is the Cup Bearer of the Gods, which contains the ambrosia and nectar. Selene was the Moon, not a mortal.

So I stand Corrected. It was Aurora and Tithonus, according to Bulfinches Myth...

Answer 5

Selene... Apollonius of Rhodes (4.57) tells how Selene loved a mortal, the handsome male prostitute —or, in the version Pausanias knew, a king— of Elis, or otherwise called a hunter or shepherd, named Endymion, from Asia Minor. He was so beautiful that Selene asked Zeus to grant him eternal life so he would never leave her: her asking permission of Zeus reveals itself as an Olympian transformation of an older myth: Cicero (Tusculanae Disputationes) recognized that the moon goddess had acted autonomously. Alternatively, Endymion made the decision to live forever in sleep. Every night, Selene slipped down behind Mount Latmus near Miletus. (Pausanias v.1.5). Selene had fifty daughters from Endymion, including Naxos. The sanctuary of Endymion at Heracleia on the southern slope of Latmus is a horseshoe-shaped chamber with an entrance hall and pillared forecourt.

Though the story of Endymion is the best-known one today, the Homeric hymn to Selene (xxxii) tells that Selene also bore Zeus a daughter, Pandia, the "utterly shining" full moon. According to some sources, the Nemean Lion was her offspring as well. She also had an affair with Pan, who seduced her by wrapping himself in a sheepskin[1] and gave her the yoke of white oxen that drew the chariot in which she is represented in sculptured reliefs, with her windblown veil above her head like the arching canopy of sky. In the Homeric hymn, her chariot is drawn by long-maned horses.

Answer 6

don't know, but I know Zeus made his human boyfriend Ganymede immortal.

Answer 7

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