 In later tellings, he eventually became a cicada ("tettix"), eternally living, but begging for death to overcome him.In the Olympian system, the "queenly" and "golden-throned" Eos can no longer grant immortality to her lover as Selene had done, but must ask it of Zeus, as a boon.Eos bore Tithonus two sons, Memnon and Emathion.