 Eos (as "Thesan") and Tithonus (as "Tinthu" or "Tinthun") provided a pictorial motif inscribed or cast in low relief on the backs of Etruscan bronze hand-mirrors.The poem is a dramatic monologue in blank verse from the point of view of Tithonus.Unlike the original myth, it is Tithonus who asks for immortality, and it is Aurora, not Zeus, who grants this imperfect gift.