 The mythology reflected by the fifth-century vase-painters of Athens envisaged Tithonus as a "rhapsode", as attested by the lyre in his hand, on an oinochoe (wine jug) of the Achilles Painter, "circa" 470–460 BC.An asteroid (6998) has been named after Tithonus.Eos is said to have taken Tithonus, from the royal house of Troy, to be her lover.