Aura
nature_spirit sky Greek single tradition · 5
Aura is the breeze personified.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Classical Greece and Rome
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Aurai, Cardea, Tritopatores, Thraskias, Venti, Aurae, Zéphyr, Anemoi, Aeolus, Eurus, Notus, Zephyrus, Boreas, Aurora, Nemesis, Eros, Diana, Jupiter, Eos
- consort of
- Dionysus
- parent of
- Iacchus
- allied with
- Artemis (Diana)
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (5)
Source passages
“Aura, the breeze personified.”
#24131 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The only other account of Aura's rape is recounted in the twelfth-century lexicon Etymologicum Magnum, according to which Aura was a maiden from Pontus who hunted with Artemis. Dionysus saw her and raped her, after which Artemis threatened to kick her out of her company.”
#27899 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The tale resumes with a similar ending to that of Pherecydes, as Procris is informed of her husband's calling out to "Aura", the Latin word for breeze, which sounds similar to Eos' Roman equivalent Aurora.”
#43432 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001