Aurora (mythology)
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Aurōra 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.
Aurōra and Cephalus, 1733, by François Boucher
Aurōra Taking Leave of Tithonus 1704, by Francesco Solimena
Apollo and Aurōra, 1671 by Gerard de Lairesse
Anemoi
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In ancient Greek religion and myth, the Anemoi were wind gods who were each ascribed a cardinal direction from which their respective winds came, and were each associated with various seasons and weather conditions. They were the progeny of the goddess of the dawn Eos and her husband, the god of the dusk, Astraeus.
Wind rose of ancient Greece, created by the scholar Adamantios Korais around 1796
Tower of the Winds in ancient Athens, part of the frieze depicting the Greek wind gods Boreas (north wind, on the left) and Skiron (northwesterly wind, on the right)
Zephyrus on an antique fresco in Pompeii
Zephyrus and Hyacinth; Attic red-figure cup from Tarquinia, c. 480 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston