Juno (English: /ˈdʒuːnoʊ/ JOO-noh; Latin Iūnō [ˈjuːnoː]) was an ancient Roman goddess, the protector and special counsellor of the state. She was equated...
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Look up Juno in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Juno commonly refers to: Juno (mythology), the Roman goddess of marriage and queen of the gods Juno (film)...
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ancient Roman religion, Lucina was a title or epithet given to the goddess Juno, and sometimes to Diana, in their roles as goddesses of childbirth who safeguarded...
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Moneta (redirect from Juno Moneta)
(identified with the Greek goddess Mnemosyne), and it was an epithet of Juno, called Juno Moneta (Latin Iūno Monēta). The latter's name is the source of numerous...
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Tanit (category Juno (mythology))
Latin name of: Juno Caelestis, for her identification with Juno. The temple of Juno Caelestis, dedicated to the City Protector Goddess Juno Caelestis, which...
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The Tempest (category Juno (mythology))
Alonso Trinculo – the King's jester Stephano – the King's drunken butler Juno – Roman goddess of marriage Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture Iris – Greek...
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Lanuvium (category Juno (mythology))
Lanuvium was especially noted for its rich and much venerated temple of Juno Sospes (Livy 8.14; Cic. Nat. D. 1.83; Fin. 2.63), from which Octavian borrowed...
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from the hour of his birth until the day he died. For women, it was the Juno spirit that would accompany each of them. Each individual place had a genius...
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In Greek mythology, Io (/ˈaɪ.oʊ/; Ancient Greek: Ἰώ [iːɔ̌ː]) was one of the mortal lovers of Zeus. An Argive princess, she was an ancestor of many kings...
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In Greek mythology, Callisto (/kəˈlɪstoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιστώ Greek pronunciation: [kallistɔ̌ː]) was a nymph, or the daughter of King Lycaon; the...
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Eternal feminine (category Juno (mythology))
glimpses in the passing clouds "a godlike female form" in which he discerns Juno, Leda, Aurora, Helen and Gretchen. This "lovely form" does not dissolve,...
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Dido, Queen of Carthage (play) (category Juno (mythology))
the Five armies Anna – Dido's sister Jupiter Ganymede Cupid Mercury Venus Juno A Lord A Nurse – Dido's widowed elderly nurse other Trojans and Carthaginians...
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Roman goose (category Juno (mythology))
goose, bred more than 2000 years ago and originally sacred to the goddess Juno. These are a light weight smaller breed of geese with a tuft of feathers...
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A festival said to be of Juno Februata or Juno Februa, though it does not appear in Ovid's Fasti, was described by Alban Butler, famous as the author...
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June (given name) (category Juno (mythology))
English-speaking countries. It comes from the name of the month, which is derived from Juno, the name of a Roman goddess. It is also a short form of the names Juniper...
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Ianuarius (category Juno (mythology))
passages, gates and doorways, but according to ancient Roman farmers' almanacs Juno was the tutelary deity of the month.: 51 Many Roman festivals and religious...
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stabilizing the spacecraft as well as generating power. Juno's name comes from Greek and Roman mythology. The god Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself...
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Andromède (category Juno (mythology))
to avenge it. Act IV: Phineus wants to kill Perseus and gets the aid of Juno. Act V: Perseus astounds Phineus; all the characters ascend to heaven to...
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Matronalia (category Juno (mythology))
Matronalia (or Matronales Feriae) was a festival celebrating Juno Lucina, the goddess of childbirth ("Juno who brings children into the light"), and of motherhood...
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Magna Dea (category Juno (mythology))
Magna Dea could be applied to a goddess at the head of a pantheon, such as Juno or Minerva, or a goddess worshipped monotheistically. The term was used in...
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List of Assassin's Creed characters (redirect from Juno (Assassin's Creed))
Juno was killed by Charlotte de la Cruz after gaining a physical form. During her own natural lifetime, Juno—known to adherents of Norse mythology as...
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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...
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and Neptune. In Roman and Greek mythology, Jupiter places his son born by a mortal woman, the infant Hercules, on Juno's breast while she is asleep so the...
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White Hall of the Winter Palace (category Juno (mythology))
various types of art, and bas-relief figures depicting the gods of Olympus: Juno and Jupiter, Diana and Apollo, Ceres and Mercury, Vesta and Neptune. The...
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Didone (opera) (category Juno (mythology))
Didone is an opera by Francesco Cavalli, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello (later librettist for Claudio Monteverdi). The opera was first...
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The Maid's Metamorphosis (category Juno (mythology))
Ascanio pauses to nap beneath a tree. As he sleeps, the goddesses Juno and Iris appear. Juno is irritated with Venus's popularity among the gods, and is determined...
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Liver of Piacenza (category Juno (mythology))
circumference: tin[ia] /cil/en tin[ia]/θvf[vlθas] tins/θ neθ[uns] uni/mae uni/ea (Juno? Maia?) tec/vm (Cel? Tellus?) lvsl (Usil) neθ[uns] (Neptunus) caθ[a] This...
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Marie de' Medici cycle (category Juno (mythology))
mythological Roman gods Juno and Jupiter. The representations are accompanied by their traditional attributes. Marie is shown as Juno (Greek Hera) identified...
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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Iris (/ˈaɪrɪs/; EYE-riss; Ancient Greek: Ἶρις, romanized: Îris, lit. 'rainbow,' Ancient Greek: [îːris]) is a...
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Iunius (month) (category Juno (mythology))
three goddesses present three different derivations of the name Iunius. Juno asserts that the month is named for her. Juventas ("Youth") pairs Iunius...
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