Before revision: Mythology According to Hesiod, Geras is one of the many sons and daughters that Nyx produced parthenogenetically.Hesiod, Theogony 225 However, both Hyginus and Cicero add Erebus, Nyx's consort, as his father.Hyginus, Fabulae PrefaceCicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 In the myth of Tithonus, the mortal prince received immortality, but not agelessness, from the gods so when old age came to him he kept aging and shrinking but never dying.
After revision: the night goddessMythology According to Hesiod, Geras is one of the many sons and daughters that Nyx produced parthenogenetically.Hesiod, Theogony 225 However, both Hyginus and Cicero add Erebus, Nyx's consort, as his father.Hyginus, Fabulae PrefaceCicero, De Natura Deorum 3.17 In the myth of Tithonus, the mortal prince received immortality, but not agelessness, from the gods so when old age came to him he kept aging and shrinking but never dying.