Aura (mythology)

In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura (Ancient Greek: Αὔρα, romanized: Aúra, lit. 'breeze' pronounced [ǎu̯raː], or Αὔρη pronounced [ǎu̯rɛː]) is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". The plural form, Aurae (Ancient Greek: Αὔραι) is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs associated with Boreas, the god of the north wind.

The most detailed account of Aura's myth is recorded by late antiquity writer Nonnus, according to whom Aura is the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian Mysteries.