Saturn devoured each of his children at birth, but Ops hid the infant Jupiter on Crete, feeding Saturn a swaddled stone instead. Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, and Vesta were all born to this divine pair.
Jupiter and Juno, king and queen of the gods united atop the Capitoline, produced Mars, Vulcan, and Juventas — war, craft, and eternal youth born of their divine marriage.
⚠ Ovid Fasti 5.229-260 recounts an alternative tradition in which Juno conceived Mars alone, impregnated by a flower given her by Flora, without Jupiter's involvement.
Lucina is the childbirth aspect of Juno, invoked as Juno Lucina by women in labor to bring their children safely into the light.
Juno favored Dido and Carthage, conspiring with Venus to bring about Dido's love for Aeneas. In the Aeneid, Juno arranged a storm to drive the lovers into a cave together.
Juno championed Turnus against Aeneas in the Aeneid, stirring up war in Latium and protecting her favored warrior until Jupiter compelled her to withdraw her support.
Juno Moneta kept watch over the Capitoline Hill from her temple on the arx, and when the Gauls scaled the cliffs by night in 390 BCE, her sacred geese raised the clamor that roused the garrison and saved the citadel from capture.
Juno persecuted Aeneas throughout his journey from Troy, sending storms and stirring up war in Italy. Her hatred stemmed from the Judgment of Paris and her knowledge that his descendants would destroy Carthage.
Juno drove Bacchus to madness and pursued him across lands, jealous of Jupiter's affair with Semele. Ovid's Metamorphoses describes Juno's relentless persecution of the young god.
Juno persecuted Hercules from birth, driven by jealousy over Jupiter's affair with his mortal mother Alcmena. She sent serpents to his cradle and drove him to the madness that led to his labors.
Juno and Venus were rivals throughout the Aeneid, with Juno opposing Venus's son Aeneas at every turn. Their conflict echoed the Judgment of Paris, where Venus was chosen over Juno as the most beautiful goddess.
Juno cast the infant Vulcan from Olympus, ashamed of his lameness. In revenge, Vulcan later forged a golden throne that trapped Juno when she sat on it, and only released her after being admitted back among the gods.
Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva formed the Capitoline Triad, worshipped together in the great temple on the Capitoline Hill as the supreme guardians of the Roman state.
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.
Uni, Hera, and Juno are the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman queen of the gods — Uni passed directly into Roman religion as Juno when the Capitoline triad of Tinia, Uni, and Menrva became Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
Juno, Neptune, and Minerva conspired to overthrow Jupiter's rule. The plot was foiled when the hundred-handed Briareus came to Jupiter's defense.
Juno summoned Alecto from the Underworld in Aeneid Book 7 to shatter the peace of Latium and ignite war between Trojans and Italians, using the Fury as her agent of chaos against fate's decree.
Juno loved Carthage above all earthly cities, kept her armor and chariot there, and nurtured a dream that it might rule the nations — until fate decreed Rome's ascendancy and the city's destruction.
Juno claimed Discordia's golden apple and competed in the Judgment of Paris. Her loss to Venus fueled her lasting hatred of Troy and the Trojans throughout the Aeneid.
Juno took pity on the grieving Hersilia after Romulus vanished from the earth, and sent Iris down to carry her bodily to heaven, where she was deified as Hora and reunited with her husband among the gods.
In Ovid's Fasti, Juno sought Flora's help to conceive a child without Jupiter's involvement. Flora gave Juno a magical flower whose touch made her pregnant, and from this parthenogenetic conception Mars was born.
Juno sent Somnus to put Aeneas's helmsman Palinurus to sleep at the tiller, and the god of sleep appeared disguised as the crewman Phorbas, shook a branch dipped in Lethe's water over Palinurus, and tumbled him overboard to drown.
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