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AURORA (perhaps through a See also:form ausosa from Sansk. ush, to See also:burn ; the See also:common See also:idea of " brightness " suggests a connexion with aurum, See also:gold)  , the See also:Roman goddess of the See also:dawn, corresponding to the See also:Greek goddess Eos . According to See also:Hesiod (Theog . 271) she was the daughter of the Titan See also:Hyperion and Thea (or Euryphassa), and See also:sister of Helios and Selene . By the Titan Astraeus, she was the See also:mother of the winds See also:Zephyrus, Notus and See also:Boreas, of See also:Hesperus and the stars . See also:Homer represents her as rising every See also:morning from the See also:couch of See also:Tithonus (by whom she was the mother of Emathion and See also:Memnon), and See also:drawn out of the See also:east in a See also:chariot by the horses Lampus and See also:Phaethon to carry See also:light to gods and men (Odyssey, See also:xxiii . 253); in Homer, she abandons her course when the See also:sun is fully risen (or at the latest at See also:mid-See also: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 See also:herald the dawn, she bears in Homer the epithet " rosy-fingered." The conception of a dawn-goddess is See also:common in See also:primitive religions, especially in the Vedic See also:mythology, where the deity See also:Usas is closely parallel to the See also:Greco-Roman; see See also:Paul Regnaud, Le Rig-Veda in Annales du musee See also:Guimet, vol. i. c . 6 (See also:Paris, 1892) . She is also represented as the See also:lover of the See also:hunter See also:Orion (Odyssey, v . 121), the representative of the See also:constellation that disappears at the flush of dawn, and the youthful hunter Cephalus, by whom she was the mother of Phaethon (See also:Apollodorus iii . 14 .

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works of See also:art, Eos is represented as a See also:young woman, fully clothed, walking fast with a youth in her arms; or rising from the See also:sea in a chariot drawn by winged horses; sometimes, as the goddess who dispenses the dews of the morning, she has a See also:pitcher in each See also:hand . In the See also:fresco-See also:painting by Guido Reni in the Rospigliosi See also:palace at See also:Rome, See also:Aurora is represented strewing See also: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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