The New Student's Reference Work/Aurora (mythology)

Aurora (in Greek Eos), the goddess of the morning. She was the daughter of Hyperion and mother of the winds. She loved Tithonus, for whom she obtained from the gods immortality but forgot to ask for perpetual youth. She lived with him at the end of the earth, and when he grew old, nursed him until at last his voice disappeared and his body became shriveled, when she changed him into a cricket. Aurora is sometimes represented in a saffron-colored robe, with a wand or a torch in her hand, emerging from a golden palace and ascending her chariot; and sometimes in a flowing veil, which she is in the act of throwing back, thus opening as it were, the gates of the morning.