page_title: Aurora (mythology)
hierarchical_section_title: Aurora (mythology)
caption_attribution_description: Aurora was the goddess of the morning and Tithonus was a Prince of Troy.
context_page_description: Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos. Eos was the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Aurora is the Latin word for dawn.
  Aurora renews herself every morning at dawn and flies across the sky. She announces the morning's arrival. She has a brother and a sister. Her brother is the sun, and her sister is the moon. She also has many husbands and four sons, one for each cardinal direction: North, East, South, and West.
  Aurora is comparable to Eos in Greek mythology and to Ushas in Hindu mythology.
  One of her lovers was Tithonus. Aurora asked Zeus to grant immortality to Tithonus. However, she failed to ask him for eternal youth. As a result, Tithonus ended up aging eternally.
  In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Montague says of his lovesick son Romeo
  But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
  Should in the farthest east begin to draw
  The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
  Away from the light steals home my heavy son...
  In the poem "Tithonus" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Aurora is described as folllows:
  Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals
  From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure,
  And bosom beating with a heart renewed.
  Thy cheek begins to redden through the gloom,
context_section_description: Aurora was the ancient Roman equivalent of Eos. Eos was the ancient Greek goddess of the dawn. Aurora is the Latin word for dawn.
  Aurora renews herself every morning at dawn and flies across the sky. She announces the morning's arrival. She has a brother and a sister. Her brother is the sun, and her sister is the moon. She also has many husbands and four sons, one for each cardinal direction: North, East, South, and West.
  Aurora is comparable to Eos in Greek mythology and to Ushas in Hindu mythology.
  One of her lovers was Tithonus. Aurora asked Zeus to grant immortality to Tithonus. However, she failed to ask him for eternal youth. As a result, Tithonus ended up aging eternally. 
  In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (i.i) Montague says of his lovesick son Romeo
  But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
  Should in the farthest east begin to draw
  The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,
  Away from the light steals home my heavy son...
  In the poem "Tithonus" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Aurora is described as folllows:
  Once more the old mysterious glimmer steals
  From thy pure brows, and from thy shoulders pure,
  And bosom beating with a heart renewed.
  Thy cheek begins to redden through the gloom,
  Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine,
  Ere yet they blind the stars, and the wild team
  Which love thee, yearning for thy yoke, arise,
  And shake the darkness from their loosened manes,
  And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.
  The asteroid 94 Aurora was named after her.
caption: 18th Century painting by Francesco de Mura Aurora, goddess of the morning and Tithonus, Prince of Troy - Aurora e Titone
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