The Getty Research Institute
Research Home Tools Cutural Objects Names Authority Iconography
Cultural Objects Names Authority  Cultural Objects Names Authority® Iconography Display
New Search Previous Page Help
ID: 901001822
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001822
Record Type: Character/Person

Auster (Roman deity)

Note: God of the south wind in Roman mythology,the sirocco that brought cloud cover and fog.

Names:
Auster (Roman deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Roman iconography> (P)
........<Roman characters> (P)
............Auster (Roman deity) (P)
Related Iconography:
counterpart is .... Notus
..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Greek iconography, Greek characters, Anemoi (Greek deities), Notus (Greek deity)) [901001810]

Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
takes the form of .... south wind
.....(wind (weather phenomena), weather and related phenomena, earth sciences concepts, physical sciences concepts, scientific concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Auster (Roman deity)
................Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)
................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
................Grant and Hazel, Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1993)

New Search

Back to Top
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust