Minerva

Hellenic religion

• Minerva is a counterpart of Athena.

  The pairing is the same interpretatio read from the Greek side. Civic cults remain local.

  from Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English

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Roman religion

• Minerva belongs to Roman religion.

  Minerva belongs to Roman craft and Capitol cult. Ovid’s Greek stories are literature in Latin dress.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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• Minerva is associated with Knowledge.

  Minerva’s brief includes crafts and counsel in Roman framing. Not automatically Athena’s owl.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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• Minerva appears in Roman religion.

  Virgil’s Aeneid seats Minerva among Trojan Palladium speech and the goddess’s anger at Troy. A named Minerva in that epic, not Athena as a second Greek id flatten and not the palladion object restated as the goddess.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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• Athena is a counterpart of Minerva.

  Roman Minerva was interpreted as Athena’s counterpart. The identification is interpretatio, not a single goddess with two passports.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English

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• Palladion is sacred to Minerva.

  Virgil’s Aeneid treats the Palladium as Pallas/Minerva’s luck-image of Troy. A named statue of that goddess in the Roman epic, not Athena as a flatten of the same row, and not the aegis.

  from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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• Minerva is associated with Juno.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Minerva is named with Jupiter and Juno for the highest temple site overlooking the city — Minerva sits with Juno in that triad seating.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Minerva is associated with Mars.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, the temples of Minerva, Mars, and Hercules will be Doric, since the virile strength of these gods makes daintiness inappropriate — Minerva shares that Doric house with Mars.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Minerva is associated with Hercules.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Minerva, Mars, and Hercules share Doric temples for their virile strength — Minerva sits with Hercules in that order rule.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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• Jupiter is associated with Minerva.

  In Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva are to have their temples on the city’s highest point under the state’s particular protection — Jupiter shares that high seat with Minerva.

  from Vitruvius; Morris Hicky Morgan (translation) · De Architectura, 1st century BCE; Morgan English 1914

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