Quirinus
Quirinus is a god, Romulus was deified as the god Quirinus. His wife Hersilia pleaded with the gods to let her become immortal as well so that she could be with her husband once again. Hersilia flew to Olympus, where she was permitted to live with her husband forevermore.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1 BCE
- Attested period
- -1 – 19
- Historical notes
- Appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Relationships
- consort of
- Hersilia
- co occurs with
- Christopher, Blaise, Gaudentius of Ossero, Duje, St. Chrysogonus, Francis Xavier, Paul the Apostle's Conversion, Lycurgus, Lysander, Philip II of Macedon, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Julius Caesar, Claudius, Zeus, Hades, Hera, Demeter, Juno, Iris, Hypnos, Pisetaerus, Mary, Vitus, Michael, Alexander
- manifested by
- Romulus
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“According to the Roman poet Ovid, after Romulus was deified as the god Quirinus, his wife Hersilia pleaded with the gods to let her become immortal as well so that she could be with her husband once again. Juno heard her plea and sent Iris down to her. With a single finger, Iris touched Hersilia and transformed her into an immortal goddess.”
#28767 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Sisak – Quirinus”
#35895 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The Romans had, up to the end of the Republic, accepted only one official apotheosis; the god Quirinus”
#44334 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free
“His early importance led to Quirinus's inclusion in the Archaic Triad (the first Capitoline Triad), along with Mars (then an agriculture god) and Jupiter.”
#46280 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free