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Moneta

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Juno Moneta, an epithet of Juno, was the protectress of funds, and, accordingly, money in ancient Rome was coined in her temple.

Caunius

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Caunius, or Basileus Kaunios, was a deity/personification of the city of Caunus in Caria, in which a temple to him had been dedicated.

Jupiter Ammon

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Jupiter Ammon is the Romanized Greco-Egyptian syncretic deity established by the Ptolemies to combine the attributes of the "king of the gods" Zeus (Jupiter) and Amun.

Felicitas

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In ancient Roman culture, felicitas is a condition of divinely inspired productivity, blessedness, or happiness. Felicitas could encompass both a woman's fertility and a general's luck or good fortune. The divine personification of Felicitas was cultivated as a goddess. Although felicitas may be translated as "good luck," and the goddess Felicitas shares some characteristics and attributes with Fortuna, the two were distinguished in Roman religion.

Ravenna

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In the Late Roman and Early Medieval periods Ravenna is the personification representing the city and residence of Ravenna.

Bonus Eventus

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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, paired with Lympha, the goddess who influenced the water supply. The original function of Bonus Eventus may have been agricultural, but during the Imperial era, he represents a more general concept of success and was among the numerous abstractions who appeared as icons on Roman coins.

Poseidon

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Poseidon was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.

Ticinum

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In the Early Medieval period Ticinum (or Ticinus) is the personification representing the city of Ticinum.

Eros

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In Greek mythology, Eros is the Greek god of love and sex.

Zeus Ammon

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Zeus Ammon is a Greco-Egyptian syncretic deity established by the Ptolemies to combine the attributes of the "king of the gods" Zeus and Amun.

Janus

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In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces.

Amphitrite

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In ancient Greek mythology, Amphitrite was a sea goddess and wife of Poseidon and the queen of the sea.

Heracles

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Heracles, born Alcaeus, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon.

Abundantia

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In ancient Roman religion, Abundantia also called Abundita was a divine personification of abundance and prosperity.

Aequitas

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Aequitas is the Latin concept of justice, equality, conformity, symmetry, or fairness.

Alamannia

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Alamannia is the personfication of the Alemanni (or Alamanni), a Germanic confederation and kingdom active in the third century CE.

Africa

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The personfication of the historical region and Roman province of Africa (modern Tunisia).

Alexandria

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The Roman personification of the city of Alexandria.

Apollo Citharodeus

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An Apollo Citharoedus, or Apollo Citharede, is a statue or other image of Apollo with a cithara (lyre).

Apollo Didymaeus

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An epithet of Apollo, referring to being the "twin" of Artemis.

Arelate

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The Roman personification of the city of Arelate (Arles) in Gallia.

Arabia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Arabia.

Argos

Definition
Argos is Odysseus' faithful dog.

Artemis of Perge

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Artemis (or Diana) Pergaea is an aspect of Artemis related directly to the cult statue of Perge.

Armenia

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The Roman personification of the Roman province of Armenia.

Asia

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The Roman personification of the province of Asia.

Athena

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Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, handicraft, and warfare who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens, from which she most likely received her name. She's usually shown in art wearing a helmet and holding a spear. Her major symbols include owls, olive trees, snakes, and the Gorgoneion.

Bacchus

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Bacchus is the Roman god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, equivalent to the Greek Dionysus.

Bona Mens

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In Roman mythology, Mens, also known as Mens Bona (Latin for "Good Mind"), was the personification of thought, consciousness and the mind, and also of "right-thinking".

Castor

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Castor is the twin brother of Pollux. See Dioscuri for further reading.

Cappadocia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Cappadocia.

Bithynia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Bithynia.

Caritas

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The Roman personification of charity.

Cerberus

Definition
Cerberus, referred to as the hound of Hades, is a three-headed dog that guards the gates to the Underworld in Greek and Roman mythology.

Charybdis

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Charybdis is a sea monster in Greek mythology. She, with the sea monster Scylla, appears as a challenge to epic characters such as Odysseus, Jason, and Aeneas. Scholarship locates her in the Strait of Messina.

Clementia

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In Roman mythology, Clementia was the goddess of clemency, leniency, mercy, forgiveness, penance, redemption, absolution, acquittal and salvation.

Constantinopolis

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Constantinopolis is the Roman personification of the city of Constantinople.

Colapis

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Colapis is the Roman personification of the Colapis (modern Kupa) River in modern Croatia and Slovenia, near Siscia.

Carthage

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The Roman personification of the city of Carthage in Africa.

Cilicia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Cilicia.

Constantia

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Constantia is the Roman personification of perserverance.

Dionysus

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Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre in ancient Greek religion and myth.

Euterpe

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Euterpe was one of the Muses in Greek mythology, presiding over music.

Danuvius

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Danuvius is the Roman/Celtic personification of the Danube River.

Euphrates

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The personification of the Euphrates River of Mesopotamia.

Diana Lucifera

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Diana Lucifera is an epithet pertaining to "light-bringer," corresponding to the light of the moon.

Dacia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Dacia.

Dea Caelestis

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Dea Caelestis is the Romanized Tanit, the chief Punic goddess.

Feronia

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In ancient Roman religion, Feronia was a goddess associated with wildlife, fertility, health, and abundance. As the goddess who granted freedom to slaves or civil rights to the most humble part of society, she was especially honored among plebeians and freedmen.

Fides

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Fides was the goddess of trust and good faith (bona fides) in Roman religion.

Francia

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Francia is the personfication of the "Franks," or Germanic tribes settled along the northern Rhine during the Roman imperial period.

Gallia

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Gallia is the personification of the historical region of Gaul or the Roman province of Gallia.

Fortuna Victrix

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Fortuna Victrix is an aspect of Fortuna pertaining to luck in military battle.

Fides Militum

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Fides Militum is an aspect of Fides corresponding to the loyalty of the military.

Fortuna Felix

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Fortuna Felix is an aspect of Fortuna pertaining to "happy luck."

Hercules

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Hercules is a Roman hero and god. He was the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Zeus (Roman equivalent Jupiter) and the mortal Alcmene. In classical mythology, Hercules is famous for his strength and for his numerous far-ranging adventures.

Harpocrates

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Harpocrates was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch).

Genius

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In Roman religion, the genius is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing.

Genius of the Roman People

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A Roman cult dedicated to the Genius of the Roman (genio populi Romani) people was established by Vespasian.

Genius of the Roman Senate

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The personification of the Genius of the Roman Senate, usually personified as a bearded, elderly man.

Germania

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Germania.

Genius of Lugdunum

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An aspect of the Genius pertaining to the Roman city of Lugdunum.

Honos

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Honos was the Roman god personifying honor. He was closely associated with Virtus, the goddess of manliness, or bravery, and the two are frequently depicted together.

Isis Pharia

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Isis Pharia or Isis Pelagia (Isis of the Sea) is an aspect of Isis pertaining to seas and harbors, and good fortune in sea travel. Isis Pharia refers to the island of Pharos on which the Lighthouse of Alexandria was located.

Janus Quadrifrons

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Janus Quadrifrons is an aspect of Janus that faces four rather than two directions.

Hispania

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The personification of the historical region and Roman province of Hispania.

Hilaritas

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Hilaritas is the Roman personification of joy, commonly represented as a matron with a long branch of foliage in her right hand.

Italia

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The Roman personification of the peninsula of Italy.

Indulgentia

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Indulgentia is a personification of indulgence, clemency, pardon.

Jucunditas

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Jucunditas is the Roman personification of gaiety.

Liberalitas

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In ancient Roman culture, liberalitas was the virtue of giving freely (from liber, "free"), hence generosity. On coins, a political leader of the Roman Republic or an emperor of the Imperial era might be depicted as displaying largess to the Roman people, with liberalitas embodied as a goddess at his side.

Liber

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In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Liber, also known as Liber Pater ("the free Father"), was a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom.

Laetitia

Definition
Laetitia, deriving from the root word lætitia, æ, f. (latin), meaning "happy", "glad", "jubilation" "prosperous", or "abounding", was a minor Roman goddess of fertility.

Jupiter Labranda

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Jupiter Labranda or Labraundeus is an epithet if Jupiter/Zeus corresponding to a temple at Labranda, in Caria. On coins, he is depicting holding a double axe and a spear.

Jupiter Carius

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Jupiter Carius (or Karios) is an epithet of Jupiter pertaining to a temple in Caria. It is an unusual form of Jupiter (or Zeus), with a spear and shield.

Judea

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Judea is the Roman personification of the region and province of Judaea.

Juno Sospita

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An epithet of Juno meaning "savior."

Libertas

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Libertas is the Roman goddess and personification of liberty. She became a politicised figure in the Late Republic, featured on coins supporting the populares faction, and later those of the assassins of Julius Caesar.

Mauretania

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Mauretania in North Africa.

Macedonia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Macedonia.

Lupa

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Lupa, or she-wolf, is the mythological wolf that raised Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome.

Lunus

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A masculine variant of Luna.

Odysseus

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Odysseus, also known by the Latin variant Ulysses, is a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey.

Nemesis

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In ancient Greek religion, Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia, is the goddess who enacts retribution against those who succumb to hubris, arrogance before the gods.

Nilus

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Nilus, or the Nile, is the personification of the Nile River in Egypt.

Nicomedia

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The Roman personification of the city of Nicomedia in Bithynia.

Noricum

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Noricum.

Moesia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Moesia.

Nobilitas

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The Roman personification of nobility.

Ops

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In ancient Roman religion, Ops or Opis (Latin: "Plenty") was a fertility deity and earth goddess of Sabine origin. Her equivalent in Greek mythology was Rhea.

Pax

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Pax, was the Roman goddess of peace derived and adopted from the ancient Greek equivalent Eirene.

Orontes

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Personification of the River Orontes, which flows through Antioch. Orontes is often depicted as a male swimmer at the feet of Tyche of Antioch.

Pannonia

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The Roman personification of the region and province of Pannonia.

Parthia

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The Roman personification of the Parthian Empire.

Oriens

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Oriens, or The Orient, is the Roman personfication of the East, sometimes depicted as a woman wearing a mural crown.

Patientia

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The Roman personification of patience and endurance.

Orbis

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Orbis is the Roman personification of the world.

Perseus

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In Greek mythology, Perseus is the legendary founder of Mycenae and of the Perseid dynasty. He was, alongside Cadmus and Bellerophon, the greatest Greek hero and slayer of monsters before the days of Heracles. He beheaded the Gorgon Medusa for Polydectes and saved Andromeda from the sea monster Cetus.

Pegasus

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Pegasus is one of the best known creatures in Greek mythology. He is a winged divine stallion usually depicted as pure white in color. He was sired by Poseidon, in his role as horse-god, and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa.

Providentia

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In ancient Roman religion, Providentia is a divine personification of the ability to foresee and make provision. She was among the embodiments of virtues that were part of the Imperial cult of ancient Rome.
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