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x Diana Diana, in Roman mythology, the goddess of hunting and wilderness. Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon. In literature she was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in...
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x Proserpina Rape of Proserpina, by Luca Giordano Opera Character
Proserpina is an ancient goddess whose story is the basis of a myth of Springtime. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Persephone. Proserpina was subsumed by the cult of Libera, an ancient fertility goddess, wife of Liber. Her name...
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x Pluto Pluto schaakt Proserpina; afbeelding van de Fontanna Prozerpiny te Poznań Name source
Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld, known in Latin as Tertius, the counterpart of the Greek Hades. Pluto was originally the Roman god of certain metals and, because these materials are mined, he also took on the role of god of the underworld....
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x Venus Art Subject
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Venus was the consort of Vulcan. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people by way of its legendary...
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x Vertumnus Vertumnus and Pomona by Luca Giordano (1682–1683), private collection Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Vertumnus (Vortumnus, Vertimnus) is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he tricked Pomona...
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x Pomona Pomona, Nicolas Fouché, c. 1700. Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Pomona was the goddess of fruit trees, gardens, and orchards. Her name comes from the Latin word, pomun, which translates to "fruit." She scorned the love of Silvanus and Picus but married Vertumnus after he tricked her,...
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x Cupid Cupidon, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875 Art Subject
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido) is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor (cognate with Kama). In popular culture Cupid is frequently shown shooting his bow to inspire romantic love,...
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x Minerva Minerva and the Muses, by Hans Rottenhammer (1603) Roman deity
Minerva was the Roman name of Greek goddess Athena. She was considered to be the virgin goddess of warriors, poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, crafts, and the inventor of music. This article focuses on Minerva in early Rome and in cultic practice....
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x Hercules Hercules and the Nemean Lion (detail), silver plate, 6th century BC (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris) Roman hero
Hercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek hero Heracles, son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italian shepherd called "Recaranus" or "Garanus", famous for his...
x The Camenae   Roman deity
In Roman mythology, the Camenae were originally goddesses of springs, wells and fountains, or water nymphs of Venus . They were wise, and sometimes gave prophecies of the future. There were four Camenae: Carmenta, Egeria, Porrima or Antevorta, and...
x Neptune Neptune is usually depicted with a trident, as seen here in this statue by Jean de Boulogne in Bologna, Italy Roman deity
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of water and the sea in Roman mythology, a brother of Jupiter and Pluto. He is analogous with but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology. The Roman conception of Neptune owed a great deal to the...
x Flora Flora or Hebe, by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring. While she was otherwise a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddesses, her association with the spring gave her particular...
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x Aeneas Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598. Name source
This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas (disambiguation). In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineías; pronounced /ɪˈniːəs/ in English) was a Trojan hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus. His...
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x Mercury Afbeelding van Mercurius van Francesco Albani Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Mercury (associated with the Greek deity Hermes) (pronounced /ˈmɝkjəri/, Latin: Mercurius listen (help·info)) was a messenger, and a god of trade, profit and commerce, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter. His name is related to...
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x Phoebus Apolocitaredo8 Roman deity
Phoebus (pronounced /ˈfiːbəs/ or /ˈfibəs/) is the Latin form of Greek Phoibos (Φοῖβος) "Shining-one", a byname used in classical mythology for either the god Apollo or the sun. Under the modern Greek spelling Phevos or Phivos (pronounced "Fivos")...
x Vulcan The Forge of Vulcan, by Diego Velázquez Roman deity
In ancient Roman religion and Hellenic neopaganism, Vulcan is the god of beneficial and hindering fire, including the fire of volcanoes. He is also called Mulciber ("smelter") in Roman mythology and Sethlans in Etruscan mythology. He was worshipped...
x Mars Velázquez - Marte Art Subject
Mars was the Roman warrior god, the son of Juno and Jupiter, husband of Bellona, and the lover of Venus. He was the most prominent of the military gods that were worshipped by the Roman legions. The martial Romans considered him second in importance...
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x Saturn Saturnus, Caravaggio, 16th c Roman deity
Saturn (Latin: Saturnus) was a major Roman god of agriculture and harvest. In medieval times he was known as the Roman god of agriculture, justice and strength; he held a sickle in his left hand and a bundle of wheat in his right. His mother's name...
x Faunus Pan and Daphnis Roman deity
In Roman paganism and its mythology, Faunus was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields. He was often equated with the Roman god Inuus, and also with the Greek god Pan. Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities, the di indigetes. He was a...
x Quirinus Romulus, vainqueur d'Acron Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Quirinus was an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, as Janus Quirinus. Quirinus was originally most likely a Sabine god of war. The Sabines had a settlement near the eventual...
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x Bellona Bellona, by Rembrandt. Roman deity
Bellona was an Ancient Roman war goddess. She is believed to be one of the numinous gods of the Romans (without a particular mythology and possibly of Etruscan origin), and is supposed by many to have been the Romans' original war deity, predating...
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x Terminus Terminus Roman deity
In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the Terminalia in Terminus'...
x Pales   Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Pales was a deity of shepherds, flocks and livestock. Regarded as a male by some sources and a female by others, and even possibly as a pair of deities (as Pales could be either singular or plural in Latin). Pales' festival,...
x Lucina   Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Lucina was the goddess of childbirth. She safeguarded the lives of women in labor. Later, Lucina was an epithet for Juno as ("she who brings children into light"). The name was generally taken to have the sense of "she who brings...
x Vesta Adam Elsheimer 006 Roman deity
Vesta was the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family in Roman mythology. Although she is often mistaken as analogous to Hestia in Greek mythology; she had a large, albeit mysterious role in Roman religion long before she appeared in Greece....
x Liber Dionysus with a leopard, satyr and grapes on a vine, in the Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Italy) Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Liber was originally associated with husbandry and crops, but then was assimilated with Dionysos. He is the consort of Ceres and the father of the goddess Libera. His festival, the Liberalia, was on 17 March when young men...
x Janus Janus-Vatican Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Janus (or Ianus) was the god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings. His most prominent remnants in modern culture are his namesakes: the month of January, which begins the new year, and the janitor, who is a caretaker...
x Aeneads    
In Roman mythology, the Aeneads (Αἰνειάδες in Greek) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Virgil also used the word as a synonym of "Trojan", a person from Troy. The Aeneads included:...
x Lares Household lararium in Pompeii Roman deity
Lares (sing. Lar, also called Genii loci or, more archaically, Lases) were ancient Roman deities protecting the house and the family, they were a form of household gods. Lares were presumed sons of Mercury and Lara, and deeply venerated by ancient...
x Genius This aureus of Hadrian shows the Genius of the circus  
In Roman mythology, every man had a genius and every woman a juno (Juno was also the name of the queen of the gods). Originally, the genii and junones were ancestors who guarded over their descendants. Over time, they turned into personal guardian...
x Jupiter Jupiter, Ancient Roman sky god Art Subject
In Roman mythology, Jupiter or Jove was the king of the gods, and the god of sky and thunder. He is the equivalent of Zeus in the Greek pantheon. He was called Iuppiter (or Diespiter) Optimus Maximus ("Father God the Best and Greatest"); as the...
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x Ops Rubens Abundance Roman deity
Ops, more properly Opis, (Latin: "Plenty") was a fertility deity and earth-goddess in Roman mythology of Sabine origin. Her husband was Saturn, the bountiful monarch of the Golden Age. Just as Saturn was identified with the Greek deity Cronus, Ops...
x Juno Vatican statue of Juno Sospita Roman deity
Juno was the protector and special counselor of the Roman state. She is a daughter of Saturn and sister (but also the wife) of the chief god Jupiter and the mother of Juventas, Mars, and Vulcan. Her Greek equivalent is Hera. As the patron goddess of...
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x Ceres Ceres, de Romeinse godin van de landbouw Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Ceres is the goddess of growing plants (particularly cereals) and of motherly love. Ceres was worshipped in Ancient Roman religion, and is today still worshipped in Religio Romana Neopaganism. Ceres was usually equated with the...
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x Carmenta The Duenos inscription, dated to the 6th century BC, shows the earliest known forms of the Old Latin alphabet Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Carmenta was the goddess of childbirth and prophecy, associated with technological innovation as well as the protection of mothers and children, and a patron of midwives. She was also said to have invented the Latin alphabet. Her...
x Egeria Egeria mourns Numa by Claude Lorrain Roman deity
Egeria was a water nymph in Roman mythology. She was most famously the second wife and counselor of the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius. Her name is used as an eponym for a woman advisor or counselor. Egeria gave wisdom and prophecy in return...
x Antevorte   Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Antevorte was the goddess of the future.
x Postverta   Roman deity
In Roman mythology, Postverta or Postvorta was the goddess of the past and one of the two Carmentes (along with the goddess Porrima). During childbirth, prayers were offered to summon the Carmentes to preside over the labor. Porrima was said to be...
x Cimmerian Sibyl Guercino's rendering of the Cimmerian Sibyl  
The Cimmerian Sibyl, by name Carmentis, was the prophetic priestess presiding over the Apollonian Oracle at Cimmerium in Italy, near Lake Avernus (i.e. Cumae). This sibyl may have been a doublet for the Cumaean since the designation Cimmerian refers...
x Flamen Bust of a flamen, 3rd century, Louvre  
A flamen was a name given to a priest assigned to a state-supported god or goddess in Roman religion. There were fifteen flamines in the Roman Republic. The most important three were the flamines maiores (or "major priests"), who served the three...
x Acis Acis and Galatea by Claude Lorrain Opera Character
In Ovid's Metamorph