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Flora

deity earth Roman single tradition · 9

Flora is a Roman goddess associated with flowers and plant life. She advised Juno on how to produce a child without male intervention by obtaining a magic flower and using it to impregnate Juno, resulting in the birth of Mars. She tested the flower's power on a heifer who became fecund at once.

↻ synthesized from 9 sources

When

First attested
500 BCE
Attested period
-500 – 2020
Historical notes
Roman goddess of flowers who enabled Juno's parthenogenetic conception of Mars in Ovid's account.

Relationships

teacher of
Juno
allied with
Neptune, Aurora
co occurs with
Karpos, Muses, Jove, Amor, Neptune, Ceres, Proserpina, Ariadne, Hebe, Ganymede, Aquilon, Narcissus, Echo, Clytie, Zéphyr, Cupid, Zephyrus, Three Graces, Pallas Athena, Archangel Gabriel, Saint Laurence, Zeus, Ares, Mars, Minerva, Jupiter, Venus, Vulcan, Diana, Pluto, Bacchus, Mercury, Virgin Mary, centaur, Persephone
consort of
Zephyrus, Zéphyr, Apollo
syncretized with
Chloris, Tyche of Constantinople
student of
Hera
manifested by
Chloris, Primavera

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Mentioned by

and 4 more

Sources

wikipedia (9)
  1. Mars (mythology)
  2. Aurora (mythology)
  3. Chloris (nymph)
  4. La Flora
  5. Le Réveil de Flore
  6. The Empire of Flora
  7. Flora Caressed by Zephyr
  8. Primavera (Botticelli)
  9. Statue of Flora

Source passages

“Juno sought the advice of the goddess Flora on how in turn to produce a child without male intervention. Flora obtained a magic flower...and tested it on a heifer who became fecund at once. Flora ritually plucked a flower, using her thumb, touched Juno's belly, and impregnated her.”

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“Aurora and Flora, the goddess of spring, are depicted interacting with Neptune in the traditional Irish folk song "Lord Courtown."”

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“Chloris, an Oceanid (one of the many daughters of the Titans, Oceanus and Tethys), was abducted by Zephyrus, the god of the west wind (which, as Ovid himself points out, was a parallel to the story of his brother Boreas and Orithyia), who transformed her into a deity known as Flora”

#27908 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Zephyrus gives Chloris a new name, Flora, and transforms her into the goddess of springtime and flowers. She then sings of the future grandeur of Florence.”

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“ballerinas performing as the Greco-Roman deities Diana, Aurora, Hebe and Flora”

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