The Dii Consentes were the twelve principal deities of the Roman state religion, presiding over civic and cosmic affairs. Their gilded statues stood together at the Porticus Deorum Consentium in the Forum, symbolizing the divine council that governed Rome's fate.
⚠ Some later sources substitute Liber (Bacchus) for one of the canonical twelve, but the earliest lists from Ennius and Livy consistently name these twelve.
The Roman Dii Consentes were modeled on the Greek Twelve Olympians, with each Roman deity corresponding to a Greek counterpart. The canonical grouping was established through the lectisternium of 217 BCE.
The Sibylline Books prescribed the great lectisternium of 217 BCE that first honored all twelve Dii Consentes together, establishing the canonical grouping of Roman state gods after Rome's defeat at Lake Trasimene.
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