In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". The plural form, Aurae is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs. According to the late antiquity writer Nonnus, Aura is the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Aurae was the title of a play by the Athenian comic poet Metagenes, who was contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato.
Aura riding a horse by Timotheus, National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
A velificans, perhaps Aura, Las Incantadas from the agora of Thessalonica (first half of the second century AD), Paris, Louvre MA 1393.
Aura (left) witnesses Peleus carrying off Thetis, red-figure vase, ca. 430-420 BC, from Eretria.
A pair of velificantes – possibly Aurae – on the Ara Pacis (late 1st century BC). Between them is Tellus Mater.
In Greek mythology, Procris was an Athenian princess, the third daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens and his wife, Praxithea. Homer mentions her in the Odyssey as one of the many dead spirits Odysseus saw in the Underworld. Sophocles wrote a tragedy called Procris that has been lost, as has a version contained in the Greek Cycle, but at least six different accounts of her story still exist.
The Death of Procris by Joachem Wtewael (circa 1595–1600)
The Death of Procris, by Piero di Cosimo (c. 1486–1510)