Aura
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Biographical
According
to Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Aura was one of Artemis’s swift-footed
companions. Dionysus loved her, but she ran away from him until, at
Dionysus’s request, Aphrodite made her fall in love with him.
As a result, she had twins by Dionysus, but when they were born, she
suddenly went mad, killed one of her children, and then threw herself
into the sea.
Daughter of Lelantos and Periboea, she had issue by Dionysus.
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