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Juno (English: / ˈ dʒ uː n oʊ / JOO-noh; Latin Iūnō) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state.She was equated to Hera, queen of the gods in Greek mythology and a goddess of love and marriage.
The Juno Ludovisi (also called Hera Ludovisi) is a colossal Roman marble head of the 1st century CE from an acrolithic statue of an idealized and youthful [3] Antonia Minor as the goddess Juno. [4] Added to the Ludovisi collection formed by Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi , it is now in the Palazzo Altemps , Museo Nazionale Romano , Rome .
Juno Moneta, the second name associating the Roman goddess Juno with the goddess Moneta who was worshiped at some locations outside Rome, was regarded as the protectress of the city's funds. Money was coined in her temple for over four centuries, before the mint was moved to a new location near the Colosseum during the reign of the emperor ...
The Temples of Juno Regina (north) and Jupiter Stator in the Porticus Octaviae behind the Theater of Marcellus in Gismondi's model of ancient Rome at the Museum of Roman Civilization. The Temple of Juno Regina (Latin: Aedes Iuno Regina) was a temple dedicated to the Roman goddess Juno Regina ("Queen Juno") located near the Circus Flaminius in ...
The Capitoline Triad was a group of three deities who were worshipped in ancient Roman religion in an elaborate temple on Rome's Capitoline Hill (Latin Capitolium). It comprised Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The triad held a central place in the public religion of Rome. [1]
A fragment from Ennius, within whose lifetime the lectisternium occurred, lists the same twelve deities by name, though in a different order from that of Livy: Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercurius, Jove, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo. [7] The Dii Consentes are sometimes seen as the Roman equivalent of the Greek Olympians.
A massive hotspot, larger the Earth’s Lake Superior, can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on Dec. 27 ...
The Temple of Juno Lucina (Latin: Aedes Iunonis Lucinae) was a Roman temple dedicated to Juno Lucina (goddess of women in childbirth) on the Esquiline Hill in Rome. It was dedicated on 1 March 375 BC, the festival of the Matronalia .