Juno

deity intermediate Roman corroborated · 31

Annibale Carracci's The Loves of the Gods includes an image of Juno urging Diana to shoot Callisto in ursine form.

↻ synthesized from 31 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Roman goddess, depicted urging Diana to shoot Callisto.

Relationships

enemy of
Callisto, Semele, Lucy, Aeneas
consort of
Genius, Jupiter
syncretized with
Uni, Diana, Luna, Tanit, Satet, Hera, Aphrodite, Venus
sibling of
Ceres, Vesta, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto
student of
Flora
served by
Lara, Iris
child of
Saturn, Ops

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Sources

Source passages

“Annibale Carracci's The Loves of the Gods includes an image of Juno urging Diana to shoot Callisto in ursine form.”

#9021 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The tutelary deity of a man was his Genius, that of a woman her Juno. In the Imperial era, the Genius of the Emperor was a focus of Imperial cult. Each town or city had one or more tutelary deities”

#9070 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Basanoff has argued that the legend not only alludes to sex and fertility in its association with wildfig and goat but is in fact a summary of sort of all the qualities of Juno. As Juno Sespeis of Lanuvium Juno Caprotina is a warrior, a fertiliser and a sovereign protectress”

#9766 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In Ovid's version of Mars's origin, he was the son of Juno alone...Juno sought the advice of the goddess Flora...Flora ritually plucked a flower, using her thumb, touched Juno's belly, and impregnated her.”

#10132 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The cities of ancient Italy characteristically had a tutela, who in many places was Juno. The true name of the deity was theoretically kept secret, to prevent an enemy from enacting a ritual "calling out" (evocatio) the tutelary and rendering the city vulnerable.”

#10580 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001