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Libera

deity earth Italic corroborated · 5

Libera is an Italic goddess who was identified by the Romans with Persephone and conflated with Proserpina.

↻ synthesized from 5 sources

When

First attested
500 BCE
Attested period
-500 – 2020
Historical notes
Italic goddess identified with Persephone by the Romans.

Relationships

syncretized with
Persephone, Ariadne, Proserpina
co occurs with
Iuno Averna, Iuno inferna, Iuno Stygia, Ariadne Aphrodite, Eleutheria, Ullr, Othinus, Mythothyn, Ollerus, Iovis, Zeus, Hades, Kore, Dis Pater, Eileithyia, Mercury, Saturn, Fortuna
allied with
Ceres, Liber
consort of
Liber Pater, Liber
sibling of
Ceres, Liber
child of
Demeter

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (4)
  1. Persephone
  2. Proserpina
  3. Ariadne
  4. Eleutheria
journal (1)
  1. Communitary and Individualistic Gods in German and Roman Religion (2006)
    Adolfo Zavaroni
    doi:10.5209/geri.14907
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“She was identified by the Romans as the Italic goddess Libera, who was conflated with Proserpina.”

#12998 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Libera was officially identified as Proserpina from 205 BC, when she and Ceres acquired a Romanized form of Greek mystery rite, the ritus graecia cereris. This was part of Rome's religious recruitment of deities to serve as divine allies against Carthage, towards the end of the Second Punic War”

#13056 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Roman author Hyginus identified Ariadne as the Roman Libera, bride to Liber.”

#27732 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In Roman mythology, Demeter (Ceres) has a daughter named Libera ('Liberty/Freedom').”

#28271 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat

“the Ceres- Liber-Libera triad”

#43491 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free