Juno
deity figure · 9 works · 13 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Argive Juno · her image ... at Argos · the Roman Juno
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Traditional Roman goddess named among the deities whose independent divine status Zeno denies.
for he reckons neither Jupiter, nor Juno, nor Vesta, nor anyone so named among the gods, but teaches that these names have been assigned, by a kind of symbolism, to lifeless and dumb things.
Therefore Juno has one shape among the Argives, another among the people of Lanuvium.
for from childhood we have known Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Neptune, Vulcan, Apollo, and the rest of the gods by that face which painters and sculptors chose, and not only by face but by adornment, age, and dress.
Ad Nationes
Jupiter's consort, subject of his lustful indulgence in Homer's poetry.
the same poet shows Jupiter almost suffering the like from the commons of heaven, or wrings tears from him over Sarpedon, or brings him in luxuriating most foully with Juno, with the desire of his lust commended by the commemoration and enumeration of his mistresses.
Would Juno have wished the Punic city — beloved before Samos — to be consumed, of all things, by the fires of the Aeneadae?
For even if Varro reports the most ancient gods to be Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, it ought not to have escaped us that every father is older than his sons, both Saturn older than Jupiter and Heaven than Saturn;
Apologeticum
Chief goddess subject to theatrical mockery and debased company.
you endure to have the records of Jupiter sung, and Juno, Venus, and Minerva judged by a shepherd.
But when you adore Larentina, a public harlot — would it were at least Lais or Phryne — among the Junos and Cereses and Dianas;
Would Juno wish the Punic city, beloved of her with Samos set aside, to be destroyed by the race of the sons of Aeneas?
Timaeus
Traditional goddess named alongside Jupiter in the inherited theogony.
thereafter Jupiter and Juno, and the rest, whom we see used and called brothers among themselves and kindred;
Letters to Lucilius
Roman goddess referenced in a critique of superstitious ritual practices.
let us forbid carrying linen cloths and scrapers to Jupiter and holding a mirror for Juno;
Adversus Marcionem
Roman goddess, allegorized in the text as an airy natural substance.
The very common superstition too of ordinary idolatry, when in its images it is ashamed of the names and fables of the dead of old, flees to an interpretation of natural things, and overshadows its disgrace with ingenuity, figuring Jupiter into a fiery substance and his Juno into an airy one — according to the sound of the Greek words — likewise Vesta into fire, and the Camenae into waters, and th …
De Corona
Roman goddess associated with a vine crown and depicted garlanded at Argos.
So too at Argos her image, garlanded with a vine-shoot, a lion's hide laid beneath its feet, displays the stepmother insulting over the spoils of either stepson.
De Testimonio Animae
A Roman goddess whose bronze cult image is referenced as an object of ritual adornment.
You stand beneath Aesculapius, you adorn Juno in bronze, you put black-formed helmets upon Minerva, and you call to witness none of the gods present.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The goddess Juno (Hera), whose temple at Plataea receives Theban spoils and whose sanctuary at Corcyra serves repeatedly as a refuge for suppliants.
They also went to the sanctuary of Juno, and persuaded about fifty men to take their trial, and condemned them all to death.
The rest, seeing what was going on, seated themselves as suppliants in the temple of Juno, their number amounting to not less than four hundred.
and with the rest of the furniture, in brass and iron, that was within the wall, they made couches and dedicated them to Juno, building also in her honour a stone chapel of one hundred feet square.