Aurora (mythology)
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In Roman mythology, Aurora is the goddess and personification of the dawn. Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, and she appeared frequently in Latin literature.
L'Aurore by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1881)
Aurora and Cephalus, 1733, by François Boucher
Aurora Taking Leave of Tithonus 1704, by Francesco Solimena
Apollo and Aurora, 1671 by Gerard de Lairesse
*H₂éwsōs
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*H₂éwsōs or *Haéusōs, romanized as Hausos, is the reconstructed name of the dawn goddess in Proto-Indo-European mythology.
Aurora (mythology)
…she appeared frequently in Latin literature. Like the Greek Eos and Rigvedic Ushas, Aurora continues the name of an earlier Indo-European dawn goddess, Hausos. Aurora stems from Proto-Italic *ausōs, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *haéusōs, the "dawn" conceived as divine entity. It has cognates in the…
The dawn rising on the Ukrainian steppes (1852), by Alexei Kondratievich Savrasov
Aurora (1621) by Italian painter Guercino
A terracotta lekanis dish (c. 4th century BCE) depicting Eos driving a chariot pulled by four white horses.
1884 illustration of the Germanic goddess Ostara by Johannes Gehrts