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.

In Roman mythology, Aurōra renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the Sun. Her parentage was flexible: for Ovid, she could equally be Pallantis, signifying the daughter of Pallas, or the daughter of Hyperion. She has two siblings, a brother (Sol, the Sun) and a sister (Luna, the Moon). Roman writers rarely imitated Hesiod and later Greek poets by naming Aurōra as the mother of the Anemoi (the Winds), who were the offspring of Astraeus, the father of the stars.

Aurōra appears most often in sexual poetry with one of her mortal lovers. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus. He was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurōra asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he continued to age, eventually becoming forever old. Aurōra turned him into a cicada.

All published appearances of Aurora from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* The Iliad
* Heroides
* Aeneid
* De reditu suo
* Romeo and Juliet
* Let me not mar that perfect Dream by Emily Dickinson
* Tithonus by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
* Villette (1853)

* Mary Marvel and got her powers from the mythological legnds Selena (grace), Hippolyta (strength) Ariadne (skill), Zephyrus (speed), Aurora (beauty), and Minerva (wisdom) when she said the magic word "Shazam!".
* In Marvel Comics, the mutant superhero, Aurora, who is the twin sister of Northstar and a founding member of Alpha Flight, was named after the Roman goddess.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(mythology) Wikipedia]
*[https://myths-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Eos Myths in Media Wiki]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/aurora/4005-176314/ ComicVine]
*[https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Eos.html Theoi]
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