Story Lab: Week 12 Story Research
Since my schedule is becoming busy with the semester ending soon, I decided the best story laboratory would be to do a little research for my storybook. So far, I've done stories for Helios and Selene, and the grand finale is told by Eos. Eos is one of my favorite greek figures of all time, so I really want to make this story perfect.
The common theme in all my stories is these goddesses and gods tricking mortals into doing things. There is a huge rivalry between the two groups, and I want to continue that dynamic.
THEOI
This website has a lot of information on many different greek figures, not just gods and goddesses. It has a significant section for Eos, including excerpts from poems about her. She is frequently referred to as "rosy fingered dawn," so I'm definitely going to incorporate that phrase in my story.
Eos was cursed by Aphrodite to love young men, including mortals. Similar to Selene, I think I have to make Eos's story a love one too. I don't want it to follow the exact same format though, so I might have to twist the story.
"Aphrodite placed a curse upon the goddess Eos causing her to fall in love with a train of mortals--Orion, Tithonos (Tithonus), Kephalos (Cephalus) and Kleitos (Cleitus)." (Theoi.com)
WIKI
According to Wikipedia, the reason Eos is cursed is because she is flirting with Ares, and Aphrodite gets jealous.
"Eos consorted with the war god Ares and was thereupon cursed with unsatisfiable sexual desire by the jealous Aphrodite.[9] This caused her to abduct a number of handsome young men, most notably Cephalus, Tithonus, Orion, and Cleitus. The good-looking Cleitus was made immortal by her. She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man."
Although it would be funny to tell the story about her and a little old man, I think I have to focus more on the conversation between Ares, Aphrodite, and Eos. It's important to include her falling for mortals, but I don't want it to copy Selene's exactly.
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Here are some possible images I found to include in my final chapter. I really love when the sunrise has a touch of pink in it, and I wanted to coordinate that with my photo of Eos. The sunrise will be the header, and the photo of Eos will go in the story.
The common theme in all my stories is these goddesses and gods tricking mortals into doing things. There is a huge rivalry between the two groups, and I want to continue that dynamic.
THEOI
This website has a lot of information on many different greek figures, not just gods and goddesses. It has a significant section for Eos, including excerpts from poems about her. She is frequently referred to as "rosy fingered dawn," so I'm definitely going to incorporate that phrase in my story.
Eos was cursed by Aphrodite to love young men, including mortals. Similar to Selene, I think I have to make Eos's story a love one too. I don't want it to follow the exact same format though, so I might have to twist the story.
"Aphrodite placed a curse upon the goddess Eos causing her to fall in love with a train of mortals--Orion, Tithonos (Tithonus), Kephalos (Cephalus) and Kleitos (Cleitus)." (Theoi.com)
WIKI
According to Wikipedia, the reason Eos is cursed is because she is flirting with Ares, and Aphrodite gets jealous.
"Eos consorted with the war god Ares and was thereupon cursed with unsatisfiable sexual desire by the jealous Aphrodite.[9] This caused her to abduct a number of handsome young men, most notably Cephalus, Tithonus, Orion, and Cleitus. The good-looking Cleitus was made immortal by her. She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man."
Although it would be funny to tell the story about her and a little old man, I think I have to focus more on the conversation between Ares, Aphrodite, and Eos. It's important to include her falling for mortals, but I don't want it to copy Selene's exactly.
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Here are some possible images I found to include in my final chapter. I really love when the sunrise has a touch of pink in it, and I wanted to coordinate that with my photo of Eos. The sunrise will be the header, and the photo of Eos will go in the story.
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| Dawn, Source |
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| Eos, Source |
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