Minerva
Minerva was one of the Roman goddesses whom Emperor Elagabalus attempted to assign as wife to his deity Elagabalus as part of his effort to unite Roman and Syrian religion.
↻ synthesized from 15 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Assigned as potential consort to Elagabalus by the emperor during his religious reforms in the early 3rd century CE.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Urania, Aphrodite, Lares, genius loci, Genius, Victory, Magna Mater, Mars Camulus, Penates, Fortuna Conservatrix, Agathe Tyche, Lares Compitales, Saturn, Bellona, Ops, Lucina, Juventas, Uni, Hera, Silvanus, Victoria, Nemausus, Liber, Baal-Hadad, Jupiter Heliopolitanus, Plotina, Roma, Tyche, Roma Aeterna, Venus Felix, Pistis, Hephaestus, Poseidon, Vesta, Fortuna, Hercules, Juno Regina, Latona, Saturnus, Great Mother of the gods, Jupiter, Epona, Dis Pater, Rosmerta, Sulevia, Sirona, Teutates, Flora, Ceres, Neptune, Pluto, Bacchus, Cupid, Proserpina, Ariadne, Hebe, Aurora, Ganymede, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Juno, Subject 16, Broteas, Aeneas, Ketos, Astarte, Sol, Zeus, Ares, Isis, Vulcan, Mercury, Apollo
- consort of
- Elagabalus
- allied with
- Juno, Jupiter, Venus, Hermathena
- syncretized with
- Athena, Brigantia, Senua, Sulis, Appias, The Appiades, Nerio, Neriene, Sulis Minerva, Senuna, Menrva, Sul
- parent of
- Brotheus
- creator of
- Nyctimene
- child of
- Jupiter
Mentioned by
- Astarte
- Sol
- Zeus
- Ares
- Isis
- Vulcan
- Mercury
- Apollo
- Hermathena
- Diana
- Appias
- The Appiades
- Nerio
- Neriene
- Sulis Minerva
- Senuna
and 4 more
Sources
Source passages
“the Emperor also tried to bring about a union of Roman and Syrian religion under the supremacy of his deity, which he placed even above Jupiter, and to which he assigned either Astarte, Minerva or Urania, or some combination of the three, as wife.”
#3686 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Capitoline Triad of Juno, Jupiter, and Minerva were also tutelaries of Rome.”
#9074 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“As the patron goddess of Rome and the Roman Empire, Juno was called Regina ("Queen") and is a member of the Capitoline Triad (Juno Capitolina), centered on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, which also includes Jupiter and Minerva, goddess of wisdom.”
#9733 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In the later Roman Empire, Neriene came to be identified with Minerva.”
#10138 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Roman deities who received offerings within the sanctuary include Apollo, Diana, Jupiter, Liber, Minerva, Silvanus, and Victoria, along with two deities from the Roman East, Isis and Baal-Hadad as Jupiter Heliopolitanus.”
#10252 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001