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The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
Bonus Eventus ("Good Outcome") was a divine personification in ancient Roman religion.The Late Republican scholar Varro lists him as one of the twelve deities who presided over agriculture, [1] paired with Lympha, the goddess who influenced the water supply.
Victoria (or Nike) on a fresco from Pompeii, Neronian era. In ancient Roman religion Victoria was the deified personification of victory. She first appeared during the first Punic War, seemingly as a Romanised re-naming of Nike, the goddess of victory associated with Rome's Greek allies in the Greek mainland and in Magna Graecia.
Nang Kwak: Goddess of wealth, fortune and luck; Phosop: Goddess of wealth; Mae ya nang (แม่ย่านาง) : Goddess of luck and good beginnings; associated with wealth and fortune. Phra phum chaiya mongkol (พระภูมิชัยมงคล) :
the names of that populace of 'little gods', dear to the Roman home, which the pontiffs had placed on the sacred list of the Indigitamenta, [1] to be invoked, because they can help, on special occasions, were not forgotten in the long litany— Vatican who causes the infant to utter his first cry, Fabulinus who prompts his first word, Cuba who ...
Grecian and Roman mythology. New York: A.S. Barnes & Burr. ISBN 0-524-02016-7. Fowler, W. Warde (2007). "Lecture I: Sketch of the Course: Domestic Deities". Roman Ideas of Deity in the Last Century before the Christian Era - Lectures Delivered in Oxford for the Common University Fund. Holyoake Press. ISBN 978-1-4067-6774-2.
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 ...
The gods of the marriage bed (di coniugales) are also gods of conception. [13] Juno, one of the three deities of the Capitoline Triad, presides over union and marriage as well, and some of the minor deities invoked for success in conceiving and delivering a child may have been functional aspects of her powers.