Aurelia

Aurelia (Latin,"golden") is a feminine given name. It was the name given to women of the gens Aurelia in ancient Rome. Aurelia may refer to:

People

Ancient

• A woman of the gens Aurelia of ancient Rome
• Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla, second daughter of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
• Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar
• Aurelia of Lebanon, guardian of the Cedar Mountains in Lebanon around 17 B.C.
• Aurelia of Strasbourg, saint

Modern

• Aurélia de Souza, Portuguese painter
• Aurelia Dobre, gymnast from Romania
• Aurelia Pentón, Cuban track and field athlete
• Aurelia Plath, mother of American poet Sylvia Plath
• Aurelia Tizón, first wife of Argentine president Juan Perón
• Aurelia Trywianska, Polish hurdler

Science

• Aurelia (genus), genus of jellyfish in the Ulmaridae family
  • Aurelia aurita, also known as the moon jelly
  • Aurelia labiata, another species known as the moon jelly
• Aurelia, synonym for chrysalis
• Aurelia (crater), crater on Venus
• 419 Aurelia, asteroid
• Aurelia and Blue Moon, hypothetical Earth-sized planet orbiting a red dwarf star

Places

• Aurelia, Iowa, a small city in the United States
• Via Aurelia, a road, dating back to the Roman Empire, from Rome northwestwards along the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Ligurian Sea
• Orillia, a city in Ontario, Canada which may have been originally spelled "Aurelia".

Other

• The Lancia Aurelia, an automobile
• Aurelia, a hymn tune for The Church's One Foundation by Samuel Sebastian Wesley
• The USS Aurelia (AKA-23), a ship in the US Navy
• The Federal Republic of Aurelia, a fictional country in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
• Aurélia (1855), by Gérard de Nerval
• Sub-sector Aurelia, where Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II takes place.
• The title character of Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot

See also

• Auris (disambiguation)
• Aurum (disambiguation)
• Aura (disambiguation)