• gender-balanced pairs: Jupiter–Juno Neptune–Minerva Mars–Venus Apollo–Diana Vulcan–Vesta Mercury–Ceres Divine male-female complements such as these, as well as the...
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    Mythologie, vol. I (Berlin, 1881), pp. 166–184. A. Schwegler, Römische Geschichte I Tübingen 1867 2nd p. 218-223; A. Brelich, "Vesta:Janus und Vesta"...
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  • 157. W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 223. A pedestal for Stata...
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    Wissowa and von Domaszewski. Dumezil above p.31 Ludwig Preller Römische Mythologie Berlin, 1858 part II, p.121-2; Servius Ad Aeneidem VIII 9. Ovid Metamorphoses...
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    System]. Wanderer am Himmel: Die Welt der Planeten in Astronomie und Mythologie [Wanderers in the Sky: The World of the Planets in Astronomy and Mythology]...
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    familiaris to the brownie. He explains in some detail in his Deutsche Mythologie: Larva betrays its affinity to lar ..., and the good kindly lares were...
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    Campbell (Edinburgh, 1871). W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 201....
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  • 2 3 Juno – Juno, Roman goddess of marriage and childbirth DMP · 3 4 VestaVesta, Roman goddess of the hearth, home, and family DMP · 4 5 Astraea – Astraea...
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    System]. Wanderer am Himmel: Die Welt der Planeten in Astronomie und Mythologie [Wanderers in the Sky: The World of the Planets in Astronomy and Mythology]...
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  • The discovery of the asteroid (3) Juno by Karl Ludwig Harding and (4) Vesta by Olbers, buttressed his hypothesis. In 1823, German linguist and retired...
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    Ceres in 1801. Soon, three more asteroids, Pallas (1802), Juno (1804), and Vesta (1807) were discovered. They were counted as separate planets, despite the...
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    book is a second edition of the original work "Griechische und römische Mythologie" published in 1892. The book offers an overview of the origins of Greek...
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    served the goddess Vesta, protector of the home, who had a sacred flame as the symbol of her presence in the city (cf. Sacred fire of Vesta). The Greek equivalent...
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    Wissowa (1912), CIL VI 206. Dumézil (1977), p. 185. Ludwig Preller Rõmische Mythologie I Berlin 1881 pp. 195–197; E. Aust s. v. Iuppiter (Liber) in Roscher lexicon...
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    priestesses whose principal duty was to maintain the sacred fire dedicated to Vesta (goddess of the home and the family), and they lived under a strict vow...
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    Hartung Die Religion der Römer II Erlangen 1836 p. 62 ; L. Preller Rômische Mythologie I. G. Wissowa Religion und Kultus der Römer Munich 1912 pp. 181-2, drawing...
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    goddesses Hestia and Vesta, two names that may derive from the PIE root *h₁w-es- ("burning"). Both the ritual fires set in the temples of Vesta and the domestic...
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    Heinrich Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 1, pp. 187–233. Mary Beard; John...
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  • 1879). 1886. Der Tempel der Vesta und das Haus der Vestalinnen. Weidmann. He edited Ludwig Preller's Römische Mythologie (3rd edition, 2 volumes, 1881)...
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    Francis Bacon, Essays Civil and Moral 21, "Of Delays." A.L. Millin, "Mythologie," in Magasin Encyclopédique (Paris, 1808), p. 283; G.T. Villenave, Les...
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