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Rh these gifts she returns to Kephalos, who after seeing her success in CHAP. the chase longs to possess them. But they can be yielded only in return for his love, and thus Prokris brings home to him the wrong done to herself, and Eos is for the time discomfited. But Prokris still fears the jealousy of Eos and watches Kephalos as he goes forth to hunt, until, as one day she lurked among the thick bushes, the unerring dart of Artemis hurled by Kephalos brings the life of the gentle Prokris to an end. This myth explains itself. Kephalos is the head of the sun, and Kephalos loves Prokris, — in other words, the sun loves the dew. But Eos also loves Kephalos, i.e. the dawn loves the sun, and thus at once we have the groundwork for her envy of Prokris. So again when we are told that, though Prokris breaks her faith, yet her love is still given to the same Kephalos, different though he may appear, we have here only a myth formed from phrases which told how the dew seems to reflect many suns which are yet the same sun. The gifts of Artemis are the rays which flash from each dewdrop, and which Prokris is described as being obliged to yield up to Kephalos, who slays her as unwittingly as Phoibos causes the death of Daphne or Alpheios that of Arethousa, The spot where she dies is a thicket, in which the last dewdrops would linger before the approach of the midday heats.

The various incidents belonging to the life of Eos are so trans- e6s and parent that the legend can scarcely be said to be a myth at all Her l""h6nos. name is, as we have seen, that of the Vedic dawn-goddess Ushas, and she is a daughter of Hyperion (the soaring sun) and of Euryphassa (the broad shining), and a sister of the sun and moon (Helios and Selene). If Ovid calls her a child of Pallas, this is only saying again that she is the ofl'spring of the dawn. Like Phoibos and Herakles, she has many loves ; but from all she is daily parted. Every morn- ing she leaves the couch of Tithonos,^ and drawn by the gleaming steeds Lampos and Phaethon, rises into heaven to announce to the gods and to mortal men the coming of the sun. In the Odyssey she closes, as she began, the day. Her love, which is given to Tithonos and Kephalos, is granted also to Orion ^ (the sun in his character as the hunting and far-shooting god), whom according to one version she conveys to Delos, the bright land, but who in another is slain by the arrow of Artemis. She also carries to the home of the gods the

the body of her father, who has been of Helene Dendritis. Ikaros, the son of slain by the peasants and thrown into Daid.alos, is only a reflexion of PhaethOn. the well Anygros (the parched). Her ' The lot of Tithonos is simply the grief leads her to hang herself on a tree reverse of that of Endymion. under which he was buried, a myth * Brown, Great Dio7iysiak Myth, n. which suggests a comparison with that 275.