Aurora

Family: Gods · Role: goddess; mother of the winds · First appears: Fable 2

In fable 2, Aurora is identified as the mother of the winds Eurus, Zephyrus, and Boreas: “the winds, who, according to the Theogony of Hesiod, were the sons of Astreus, the giant, and Aurora.” In fable 4, she is listed as a parent of Astræa, and in fable 46 Lucifer is associated with ushering forth “the fires of Aurora, Aurora, the chariot of the day.”

By fable 68, Aurora has become enamoured of Cephalus while he hunts on Hymettus and carries him away against his will, though he resists her advances; Procris is named as her rival. In fable 80, Aurora is again listed as a parent of Minerva, while the account describes Aurora as the daughter of Pallas and says she complained of her husband’s aged years.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aurora carries Cephalus away against his will while he hunts.(Fable68 · 📍 Hymettus)
  • With: Cephalus
  • “The second month was now passing, after the marriage rites, when the saffron-colored Aurora, dispelling the darkness in the morn, beheld me, as I was planting nets for the horned deer, from the highest summit of the ever-blooming Hymettus,[110] and carried me off against my will.”

Fable 2

• child: Eurus (Eurus is identified in the chapter as one of the winds.) “That is, the winds, who, according to the Theogony of Hesiod, were the sons of Astreus, the giant, and Aurora.”
• child: Zephyrus (Zephyrus is identified in the chapter as one of the winds.) “That is, the winds, who, according to the Theogony of Hesiod, were the sons of Astreus, the giant, and Aurora.”
• child: Boreas (Boreas is identified in the chapter as one of the winds.) “That is, the winds, who, according to the Theogony of Hesiod, were the sons of Astreus, the giant, and Aurora.”

Fable 4

• child: Astræa (One stated genealogy identifies Aurora as Astræa's mother.) “She was the daughter of Astræus and Aurora, or of Jupiter and Themis, and was the Goddess of Justice.”

Fable 46

• with Lucifer (Lucifer ushers forth Aurora) “until Lucifer should usher forth the fires of Aurora, Aurora, the chariot of the day.”

Fable 68

• admired: Cephalus “Cephalus, having resisted the advances of Aurora, who has become enamoured of him while hunting, returns in disguise to his wife, Procris, to try if her affection for him is sincere.”
• admirer->admired with Cephalus “Cephalus, having resisted the advances of Aurora, who has become enamoured of him while hunting, returns in disguise to his wife, Procris, to try if her affection for him is sincere.”
• rivals with Procris “The second month was now passing, after the marriage rites, when the saffron-colored Aurora, dispelling the darkness in the morn, beheld me, as I was planting nets for the horned deer, from the highest summit of the ever-blooming Hymettus,[110] and carried me off against my will.”

Fable 69

• rivals with Procris “Possibly, Ovid may intend to imply that her jealousy received an additional stimulus from the similarity of the name ‘Aura’ to that of her former rival, Aurora.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.