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AURORA (perhaps through a form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to burn ; the common idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, gold)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 927 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AURORA (perhaps through a form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to burn ; the common idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, gold) , the Roman goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Greek goddess Eos. According to Hesiod (Theog. 271) she was the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Thea (or Euryphassa), and sister of Helios and Selene. By the Titan Astraeus, she was the mother of the winds Zephyrus, Notus and
Boreas
 , of Hesperus and the stars.
Homer
  represents her as rising every morning from the couch of
Tithonus
  (by whom she was the mother of Emathion and Memnon), and
drawn
  out of the
east
  in a chariot by the horses Lampus and
Phaethon
  to carry light to gods and men (Odyssey, xxiii. 253); in
Homer
 , she abandons her course when the sun is fully risen (or at the latest at mid-day, Iliad, ix. 66), but in later literature she accompanies the sun all day and thus becomes the goddess of the daylight. From the roseate shafts of light which herald the dawn, she bears in Homer the epithet " rosy-fingered." The conception of a dawn-goddess is common in primitive religions, especially in the Vedic mythology, where the deity Usas is closely parallel to the Greco-Roman; see Paul Regnaud, Le Rig-Veda in Annales du musee Guimet, vol. i. c. 6 (Paris, 1892). She is also represented as the lover of the hunter Orion (Odyssey, v. 121), the representative of the constellation that disappears at the flush of dawn, and the youthful hunter Cephalus, by whom she was the mother of
Phaethon
  (Apollodorus iii. 14. 3). In works of art, Eos is represented as a
young
  woman, fully clothed, walking fast with a youth in her arms; or rising from the sea in a chariot
drawn
  by winged horses; sometimes, as the goddess who dispenses the dews of the morning, she has a pitcher in each hand. In the fresco-painting by Guido Reni in the Rospigliosi palace at Rome, Aurora is represented strewing
flowers
  before the chariot of the sun. Metaphorically the word Aurora was used (e.g. Virg. Aen. viii. 686, vii. 6o6) for the
East
  generally.


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