Aurora

Family: mythological · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 3

In Book 1, Chapter 3, Aurora carried off Cephalus, who was described as handsome, because she was enamoured of him. Book 3, Chapter 18, also describes Cephalus as carried off by Aurora for his beauty. In Book 5, Chapter 22, a semicircular stone base bore statues of Zeus, Thetis, and Aurora supplicating Zeus for their children.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aurora carried off Cephalus because she was enamoured of him.(Book 1 · Chapter 3)
  • With: Cephalus
  • “Aurora carrying off Cephalus, who, being most handsome, was, they say, carried off by enamoured Aurora”

Book 1 · Chapter 3

• admired: Cephalus “Aurora carrying off Cephalus, who, being most handsome, was, they say, carried off by enamoured Aurora”

Book 3 · Chapter 18

• with Cephalus (interaction) “Cephalus carried off by Aurora for his beauty.”

Book 5 · Chapter 22

• with Zeus (Aurora supplicates Zeus.) “And near what is called the Hippodamium there is a semicircular basement of stone, and statues on it of Zeus and Thetis and Aurora supplicating Zeus for their children.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.