He describes it as a region unvisited by the sun, and therefore shrouded in perpetual darkness, the abode of a people whom he names Kimmerians. […] They liberate their imprisoned brethren ; but Kronos, to whom the kingdom is given, binds them again in Tartaros. […] Memnôn and Æmathiôn were the children whom Eôs bore to Tithonos280. […] All the goddesses, save Hera and Eileithyia, (whom the art of Hera kept in ignorance of this great event,) were assembled in the isle. […] There is none of the Olympians of whom the foreign origin is so probable as this goddess.