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Veritas, goddess and personification of the Roman virtue of veritas or truth. Verminus, god of cattle worms. Vertumnus, Vortumnus or Vertimnus, god of the seasons, and of gardens and fruit trees. Vesta, goddess of the hearth, the Roman state, and the sacred fire; one of the Dii Consentes. Vica Pota, goddess of victory and competitions.
Numerous animals also appeared in Greco-Roman mythology, such as the Hydra and the Chimera. [158] The ancient Greeks practiced Ornithomancy and the Romans practiced Augury, [159] which are the practices of foretelling omens through the movement of birds. [160] Animal sacrifice was a common religious practice throughout the classical world. [161]
Libertas, along with other Roman goddesses, has served as the inspiration for many modern-day personifications, including the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in the United States. According to the National Park Service , the Statue's Roman robe is the main feature that invokes Libertas and the symbol of Liberty from which the statue derives ...
The Greeks later syncretized their own goddess Artemis with the Egyptian goddess Bastet, adopting Bastet's associations with cats and ascribing them to Artemis. [ 10 ] : 77–79 In Ovid 's Metamorphoses , when the gods flee to Egypt and take animal forms, the goddess Diana (the Roman equivalent of Artemis) turns into a cat.
See also Wikipedia's categories of Greek goddesses, Greek gods, and Roman gods. For a list of Goddesses with brief descriptions, see List of Roman Goddesses Subcategories
Minerva is a prominent figure in Roman mythology. She appears in many famous myths. Many of the stories of her Greek counterpart Athena are attributed to Minerva in Roman mythology, such as that of the naming of Athens [8] resulting from a competition between Minerva and Neptune, [9] in which Minerva created the olive tree. [1]
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She is equated with the Greek goddess Artemis, and absorbed much of Artemis' mythology early in Roman history, including a birth on the island of Delos to parents Jupiter and Latona, and a twin brother, Apollo, [2] though she had an independent origin in Italy. Diana is considered a virgin goddess and protector of childbirth.