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Olympians

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12

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Where did they live

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Mount Olympus

North Greece

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Gods were

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Immortal

Ageless

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Jupiter

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  • Fatherly figure-> patriarchal head
  • Healthy middle age
  • ‘Father of the gods and king of men’
  • Iov pater -> Etruscan
  • Jove
  • sky and weather god, travellers
  • thunderbolt, sceptre (politics), throne
  • Zeus
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Apollo

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  • Ever in youthful manhood- beautiful, short curly hair
  • god of music, the arts, education, health and disease, prophecy, archery and the sun
  • carried a lyre and a quiver full of arrows
  • Phoebus (epithet- shining)
  • ludi Apollinares -> 8/9 days in the middle of July
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Jupiter and Juno

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Siblings

Married

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epithet

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An adjective to describe the specific section of life looked after

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Jupiter Pluvius

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Rain giver

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Jupiter Optimus Maximus

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The Best and Greatest - sovereign power

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Jupiter Lapis

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God of oaths

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Regina

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Juno - queen of the gods

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Lucina

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Juno - goddess of childbirth

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Moneta

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Juno the advisor - protector of the roman mint

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Pronuba

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Juno - patron of marriage

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Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus

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At the start of every year, the new consuls went there to perform a sacrifice

The senate always held the first meeting of the year there

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The Capitoline Triad

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Jupiter, Juno, Minerva

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Neptune

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  • based on Etruscan sea god Nethuns
  • Poseidon
  • brother of Jupiter
  • god of the sea, god of earthquakes
  • trident, dolphin
  • closely associated with horses & bulls (races)
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Vulcan

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  • Hephaestus
  • god of fire and metal-working, artisans
  • turn rock into bronze weapons or fine jewellery
  • Romans relied production of iron
  • lived under Mt Etna
  • married to Venus
  • Vulcanalia -> 23rd August
  • anvil and hammer
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Mars

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  • father of Romulus
  • all descendants
  • second only in importance to Jove
  • god of agriculture (Maris)- responsible for the defence and protection of Catt me, field and farmers
  • Ares- war
  • Campus Martius -> training ground for soldiers
  • armour
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Mercury

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  • Hermes
  • winged sandals, winged helmet
  • carried caduceus (herald’s staff entwined with 2 snakes)
  • god of travellers, god of traders and commercial profits
  • escorted the souls of the dead down to the Underworld
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Juno

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  • oversaw both marriage and childbirth
  • 1st March- Matronalia
  • peacock
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Ceres

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  • goddess of the crops and harvest
  • 496BC- Demeter adopted from Sibylline books to drive away famine. Temple of Acentine Hill
  • Cerealia - between 12th and 19th of April (associated with plebeian classes)
  • flower, fruit and grain
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Venus

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  • fertility and procreation, love and beauty
  • Aphrodite
  • mother of Aeneas
  • Mother of Cupid by mars
  • sea shell
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Minerva

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  • Menvra (goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce)
  • Athena
  • born from the head of Jupiter
  • goddess of wisdom, goddess of war, weaving and handicrafts, school and children
  • owl, aegis (goatskin shield imprinted with the image of a gorgon’s head)
  • important to artisans and women working in the household
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Diana

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  • hunting, the moon (Phoebe)
  • Artemis
  • twin brother Apollo
  • hunting dress, deer, quiver of arrows
  • worshipped BT poor and spaces
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Vesta

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  • goddess of the hearth
  • protector of the state
  • Vestalia - between 7th and 15th June
  • originally one of the 12 Olympians, gave up her space for Bacchus in order to tend the sacred fire on Mt Olympus
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Dionysus

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  • god of wine and theatre, revelry
  • Bacchus
  • Liber (early roman god of fertility, wine and growth)
  • Bacchanalia -> mystery cult
  • thyrsus, vines, ivy, animal skins
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Janus

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  • specifically Roman
  • god of gates and doorways, beginnings and endings
  • protector of a house
  • two heads looking in opposite directions
  • January
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Pluto

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  • ruler of the Underworld, god of the dead
  • Dis Pater
  • pomegranate
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Emperors could be deified

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After their death

Genius (guardian spirit) could be worshipped while living

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First emperor to be deified

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Julius Caesar - 42BCE

divus Iulius

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Augustales

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college (21) of priests who served the cult of the emperor

Normal drawn from the ranks of freedmen (barred from holding any other political or religious posts)

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