AURORA, the Roman goddess of the dawn, corresponding to the Greek Eos. According to Hesiod (Theog. 271) she was the daughter of the Titan Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Selene. By the Titan Astraeus, she was the mother of the winds Zephyrus, Notus, and Boreas, of Hesperus and the stars. Homer represents her as rising every morning from the couch of Tithonus (q.v.) and drawn out of the east in a chariot by the horses Lampus and Phaethon to carry light to gods and men (Odyssey, xxiii. 253). From the roseate shafts of light which herald the dawn, she bears in Homer the epithet "rosy fingered." The conception of a dawn-goddess is common in primitive religions, especially in the Vedic mythology, where the deity Usas is closely parallel to the Graeco-Roman. She is also represented as the lover of the hunter Orion (Odyssey, v. 121), the representative of the constellation that disappears at the flush of dawn, and of the youthful hunter Cephalus, by whom she was the mother of Phaethon (Apollodorus iii. 14. 3) . In works of art Eos is represented as a young woman, fully clothed, walking fast with a youth in her arms; or rising from the sea in a chariot drawn by winged horses; sometimes, as the goddess who dispenses the dews of the morning, she has a pitcher in each hand. In the fresco-painting by Guido Reni in the Rospigli osi palace at Rome, Aurora is represented strewing flowers before the chariot of the sun. In Latin writings the word Aurora was used (e.g., Virgil, Aen., viii. 686, vii. 6o6) for the East.