Aura (mythology)
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title:
Aura (mythology)
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In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". The plural form, Aurae is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs. According to the late antiquity writer Nonnus, Aura is the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Aurae was the title of a play by the Athenian comic poet Me
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Divine personification of the breeze in Greek and Roman mythology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(mythology)
date created:
2010-04-20T21:37:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T20:38:26Z
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