Aurora (Roman deity)

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Name (Hebrew)
אורורה (אל רומי)
Name (Latin)
Aurora (Roman deity)
Other forms of name
Aourora (Roman deity)
Aulola (Roman deity)
Auroara (Roman deity)
Aurorah (Roman deity)
Aurore (Roman deity)
Aŭroro (Roman deity)
אורורה (אליל רומי)
אורורה (אליל יווני)
Aurora (Roman deity)
Associated country
Rome
Field of activity
Sun--Rising and setting
See Also From tracing topical name
Goddesses, Roman
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q178831
Library of congress: no2017053233
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Le Pavillion de l'Aurore, les dessins de Le Brun et la coupole restaurée, c2000:p. 11 (one of the rare buildings surviving from the age of Colbert; the iconography of the cupola, decorated with the chariot of Aurora)
  • Britannica online, Oct. 16, 2001(Eos (Greek), Roman Aurora, in Greco-Roman mythology, the personification of the dawn)
  • Carlyon, R. Guide to the gods, 1982(Eos, goddess of the dawn; alias Aurora)
  • Kleine Pauly(Eos; lat. Aurora; the dawn)
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Wikipedia description:

Aurōra (Latin: [au̯ˈroːra]) is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry. Like Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas, Aurōra continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos.

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