Terminus
deity earth Roman single tradition · 3
A Roman deity dating to Rome's oldest religious stratum who had no Greek equivalent. He represents one of the distinctly Roman divine figures without parallel in the Greek pantheon.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 500 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Roman deity, active during the Roman Empire.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Her[e]cle, Aphrodite Urania, Forculus, Lima, Limentinus, Lua, Vidura, Dhritarashtra, Gaia, Zeus, Apollo, Amon, Mars, Ares, Jupiter, Dionysus, Heracles, Osiris, Hephaestus, Janus, Hercules, Hestia, Ptah, Api, Tabiti, Papaios, Argimpasa, *Dyēus, Diana, Mercury, Bacchus, Portunus, Proserpina, Cardea, Mitra, Varuna, Cyclops, Hecatoncheires, Iuventas
- allied with
- Saturn
Mentioned by
- Gaia
- Zeus
- Apollo
- Amon
- Mars
- Ares
- Jupiter
- Dionysus
- Heracles
- Osiris
- Hephaestus
- Janus
- Hercules
- Hestia
- Ptah
- Api
and 15 more
Sources
wikipedia (3)
Source passages
“Some deities dating to Rome's oldest religious stratum, such as Janus and Terminus, had no Greek equivalent”
#25319 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Terminus, god who protected boundary markers”
#34826 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“the refusal of gods Iuventas and Terminus to leave their abode in the shrines on the Capitol when the temple of Jupiter was to be built”
#45772 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free