The Goddess Aurora is the Roman goddess of the dawn, whose name in Latin means "dawn". She flies across the sky in a chariot pulled by horses, heralding the coming of the sun. She is the personification of the dawn, controlling the cycle of day and night. In a common myth, Aurora asked Jupiter for immortality for her lover Tithonus. However, she forgot to ask for eternal youth, leading him to age eternally and eventually be transformed into a grasshopper.