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Necessitas, goddess of destiny, the Roman equivalent of Ananke. Nemesis, goddess of revenge , adopted as an Imperial deity of retribution. Neptune, god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, and one of the Dii Consentes. Greek equivalent is Poseidon. Nerio, ancient war goddess and the personification of valor. The consort of Mars.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
A goddess suckling a toddler and seated in the wicker chair characteristic of Gallo-Roman goddesses (2nd or 3rd century, Bordeaux) Lucina as a title of the birth goddess is usually seen as a metaphor for bringing the newborn into the light (lux, lucis). [59] Luces, plural ("lights"), can mean "periods of light, daylight hours, days."
See also Wikipedia's categories of Greek goddesses, Greek gods, and Roman gods. ... Deified ancient Roman women (1 C, 8 P) Diana (mythology) (4 C, 41 P) F.
The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices [1]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome. Their gilt statues stood in the Roman Forum, and later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. [2]
Rome's citizen-soldiers set up altars to multiple deities, including their traditional gods, the Imperial genius and local deities – sometimes with the usefully open-ended dedication to the diis deabusque omnibus (all the gods and goddesses). They also brought Roman "domestic" deities and cult practices with them. [174]
Venus (/ ˈ v iː n ə s /) [a] is a Roman goddess whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory.In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy.
In ancient Roman religion, agricultural deities were thought to care for every aspect of growing, harvesting, and storing crops. Preeminent among these are such major deities as Ceres and Saturn, but a large number of the many Roman deities known by name either supported farming or were devoted solely to a specific agricultural function.