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Like Ares who was the son of Zeus and Hera, [20] Mars is usually considered to be the son of Jupiter and Juno. In Ovid's version of Mars' origin, he was the son of Juno alone. Jupiter had usurped the accepted function of women as mothers when he gave birth to Minerva directly from his forehead (or mind).
A flamen (plural flamines) [1] was a priest of the ancient Roman religion who was assigned to one of fifteen deities with official cults during the Roman Republic.The most important of these were the three flamines maiores (or "major priests"), who served the important Roman gods Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus.
Over time, however, Quirinus became less significant, and he was absent from the later, more widely known triad (he and Mars had been replaced by Juno and Minerva). Varro mentions the Capitolium Vetus , an earlier cult site on the Quirinal, devoted to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, [ 18 ] [ a ] among whom Martial makes a distinction between the ...
Mars, Mercurius, Iovis, Neptunus, Vulcanus, Apollo Livy [ 4 ] arranges them in six male-female pairs: Jupiter-Juno, Neptune-Minerva, Mars-Venus, Apollo-Diana, Vulcan-Vesta and Mercury-Ceres. Three of the Dii Consentes formed the Capitoline Triad : Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.
The theatre in act one was a flower-adorned public square prepared for games, bordered by Juno's temple and the king's palace, with a bridge in the background. Act two portrayed the king's gardens, featuring statues such as Jupiter's. The set design in act three depicted a palace courtyard of Cepheus, with a sea arm visible in the distance. [3]
Look up to the sky Wednesday morning and you'll see what astronomers call a planetary conjunction as Jupiter and Mars appear to be close together.
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A daughter of Saturn and Ops, she was the sister and wife of Jupiter and the mother of Mars, Vulcan, Bellona, Lucina and Juventas. Like Hera, her sacred animal was the peacock . [ 1 ] Her Etruscan counterpart was Uni , and she was said to also watch over the women of Rome. [ 2 ]