Diana
deity figure · 7 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Lucifera · Lucina · Omnivaga · the Diana of the Scythians · virgin queen
spoken of as
1 expressionDiana of the Scythians1 mention
Scorpiace (Latin)
" But indeed it has been lawful in the world to appease the Diana of the Scythians, or the Mercury of the Gauls, or the Saturn of the Africans, with a human victim;
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Goddess identified with the moon, invoked in childbirth, associated with the burning of her temple at Ephesus on Alexander's birth night.
The same Diana is called Omnivaga (the all-wandering), not from hunting (a venando) but because she is reckoned among the seven, as it were, wandering bodies;
And she is invoked at births, because these come to maturity sometimes in seven, but for the most part in nine, courses of the moon, which, because they complete measured spaces (mensa spatia), are called months (menses);
That the sun is a god and the moon, of which the Greeks think the one Apollo, the other Diana.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Goddess whose sacred enclosure at Rhegium serves as the campsite of the Athenian forces.
There they at once mustered, and pitched a camp outside the city, (as they would not receive them within the walls,) in the sacred enclosure of Diana, where they afforded them a market;
Accordingly he went first to Ephesus, and offered sacrifice to Diana.
Lucullus
Goddess appearing within the quoted mad vision of Alcmeon, hurling a torch.
Diana hurls a torch from the left.
De Rerum Natura
The goddess Diana, whose altar at Aulis was the site of Iphigenia's sacrifice, named in the account of religious crime.
Defiled Diana's altar, virgin queen,
Apologeticum
Goddess mocked in mime and associated with a debased cult figure.
But when you adore Larentina, a public harlot — would it were at least Lais or Phryne — among the Junos and Cereses and Dianas;
is it mimes or your gods that you laugh at in the jests and tricks — the adulterer Anubis, and the masculine Moon, and Diana flogged, and the reading of dead Jupiter's will, and the three famished Herculeses mocked?
De Spectaculis
Goddess presiding, with Mars, over the amphitheatre's gladiatorial and beast shows.
we know Mars and Diana to be the presidents of both kinds of show.
Scorpiace
A pagan goddess of the Scythians, cited as historically appeased with human sacrifice.
" But indeed it has been lawful in the world to appease the Diana of the Scythians, or the Mercury of the Gauls, or the Saturn of the Africans, with a human victim;