Aurora (mythology)
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Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos, the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Aurora is the Latin word for dawn.
Aurora renews herself every morning at dawn and flies across the sky, announcing the morning's arrival. Her siblings consist of a brother (the sun), and a sister (the moon). She also has many husbands and four sons, the winds: North, East, West, and South, one of whom was killed.
One of her husbands was Tithonus, whom she had initially taken as a lover. Aurora asked Zeus to grant immortality to Tithonus. However, she failed to ask him for eternal youth. As a result, Tithonus ended up aging eternally.
In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (i.i) Montague says of his lovesick son Romeo
- But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
- Should in the furthest east begin to draw
- The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
- Away from the light steals home my heavy son...
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