Aurora (mythology)

L'Aurore (painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard )

Aurora is the Latin name for the dawn . In Latin works, the name Aurora therefore appears in place of the Greek goddess Eos , and it is often not possible to distinguish between a poetic designation of the daybreak and a personal goddess. Since the Greek Eos is the sister of the sun god Helios and the moon goddess Selene , the Roman aurora is accordingly the sister of the sun god Sol and the moon goddess Luna . A Roman mythography independent of the Greek does not exist.

Among the Etruscans , she corresponded to the goddess Thesan .

reception

• Günter Kochan : Aurora. Cantata for medium female voice, choir and orchestra (1966) Text: Stephan Hermlin .

swell

• Virgil Aeneid 7.26; Georgika 1.446
• Ovid Metamorphoses 3,184; 2.112; 4.81
• Consolatio ad Liviam 281

literature

• Tobias Leuker: Eos. In: Maria Moog-Grünewald (Ed.): Mythenrezeption. The ancient mythology in literature, music and art from the beginnings to the present (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 5). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-02032-1 , pp. 258-261.

Web links

Commons : Aurora  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• approx. 110 photos of representations of the aurora in art, in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database