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  2. Dii Consentes - Wikipedia

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    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]

  3. List of Roman deities - Wikipedia

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    Roman statue of the infant Hercules strangling a snake. Hercules, god of strength, whose worship was derived from the Greek hero Heracles but took on a distinctly Roman character. Hermaphroditus, an androgynous Greek god whose mythology was imported into Latin literature. Honos, a divine personification of honor. Hora, the wife of Quirinus.

  4. Roman mythology - Wikipedia

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    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. Roman mythology ...

  5. Twelve Olympians - Wikipedia

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    Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...

  6. Category:Roman deities - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Roman gods (16 C, 96 P) A. Deities in the Aeneid ... Personifications in Roman mythology (5 C, 53 P) R.

  7. Category:Roman mythology - Wikipedia

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    Mythology portal; History portal; Roman mythology is a mixture of general Greek and local myths about Rome and Roman gods and other Italian gods which are independent of Greek beliefs and tales. Gods and some heroes in Roman mythology often appear in Greek mythology with different names, sometimes a name of a Roman/Italian deity that largely ...

  8. Genealogia Deorum Gentilium - Wikipedia

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    Giovanni Boccaccio Genealogia deorum gentilium, 1532. Genealogia deorum gentilium, known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles, is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin prose from 1360 onwards by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio.

  9. Fides (deity) - Wikipedia

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    Fides (Latin: Fidēs) was the goddess of trust, faithfulness, and good faith in ancient Roman religion. [1] [2] Fides was one of the original virtues to be cultivated as a divinity with ceremonies and temples. [3] Fides Publica holding a cornucopia and extending a libation bowl on the reverse of a dupondius issued by Vespasian 77–78 AD