Aurora

Aurora comes from the Latin “aurora” meaning ‘dawn’ and her name was born in Roman mythology (her Greek counterpart is Eos). Aurora was the daughter of a Titan god and Terra, the Roman mother earth. She was the sister of the sun (Sol) and moon (Luna). Aurora dwelled in Oceanus, the great river that encircled the earth. Each morning, she renewed herself and flew across the sky, bringing light to announce the arrival of the sun. In Roman mythology and Latin poetry, Aurora was depicted as an energetic, beautiful woman who took many lovers. One such lover was the mortal Tithonus, prince of Troy. As he grew older, the perpetually youthful Aurora begged Jupiter to grant him immortality. Her only faux-pas was that she neglected to ask for his youth back as well. Big oops. Tithonus would age everlastingly separating him from both the mortal world and his beautiful goddess girlfriend who grew repulsed by him. So Aurora eventually turned him into a grasshopper and that was that. Although an ancient name, Aurora was not taken up as a given name until modern times. It was considered a scholarly equivalent to the name Dawn.