Aurora

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.8 mother of black Memnon

  Aurora the dawn-goddess, here a periphrasis for daybreak: Dipsas is never sober enough to see her rise.

• The Art of Love §1.10 the Dawn

  Aurora, goddess of dawn; the Sun reversed his course back toward her in horror at Atreus' crime.

• The Art of Love §3.5 rosy goddess

  Aurora, goddess of the dawn, who carried off Cephalus.

• The Art of Love §3.33 moving breeze

  Cephalus calls on 'Aura' (the breeze) to cool him; the name, misheard, is taken for a rival — though Aurora was his true divine lover.

• The Heroides §3 Dawn

  Aurora (Greek Eos), goddess of the dawn; 'tomorrow's Dawn' marks the day Achilles threatens to sail.

• The Heroides §4 Aurora

  Goddess of the dawn, who left her aged husband Tithonus to carry off the hunter Cephalus.

• The Heroides §15 Aurora

  Goddess of dawn, who once snatched away Cephalus; her old love keeps her from Phaon.

• The Heroides §16 Aurora

  Goddess of the dawn, who loved and snatched away the Phrygian Tithonus.

• The Heroides §18 the wife of Tithonus

  Aurora, the dawn-goddess, wife of the Trojan Tithonus, whose coming ends Leander's night with Hero.

• The Heroides §18 Aurora

  Goddess of dawn, whose approach drives off the night of the lovers' meeting.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.4 mother of Memnon

  Aurora (Dawn), mother of Memnon, who brings up the day with her rosy mouth; Ovid prays she may soon bring the day of his recall.

• The Festivals §4.20 mother of Memnon

  Aurora, goddess of dawn and mother of Memnon, on whose appearance the sun quits the Ram.

• The Festivals §6.11 Tithonus

  The aged consort of Aurora (Dawn), 'left' each morning as she rises.

• The Festivals §11 the bride leaving Tithonus

  Aurora, the Dawn, who leaves the bed of aged Tithonus each morning.

• Metamorphoses §1.2 the Dawn

  Aurora, goddess of the dawn; here the East, toward which the wind Eurus withdrew.

• Metamorphoses §2.15 Aurora

  The Dawn, who throws open her rose-filled eastern doors before the Sun rises.

• Metamorphoses §3.45 rosy Dawn

  Aurora, goddess of the dawn, whose blush colours the morning clouds.

• Metamorphoses §13.413 Aurora

  The dawn-goddess, mother of Memnon.

• Metamorphoses §15.479 the daughter of Pallas

  Aurora, the dawn (Pallantias), forerunner of the sun.