Roman mythology

Verginia, or Virginia (ca. 465 BC–449 BC), was the subject of a story of ancient Rome, related in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita.

In Roman mythology, Caeculus (meaning "little blind boy", from caecus "blind") was a son of Vulcan, and the legendary founder of Praeneste (modern Palestrina).

In Roman mythology, Voluptas or Volupta, according to Apuleius, is the daughter born from the union ofCupid and Psyche.

In the Roman Empire, Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July.

Antinous (also Antinoüs or Antinoös; Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος; 27 November, c. 111 – before 30 October 130) was a Bithynian Greek youth and a favourite, or lover, of the Roman emperor Hadrian.

In Roman mythology, Tarpeia /tɑːrˈpiːə/, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius (a Roman commander) was a Roman maiden who betrayed the city of Rome to the Sabines in exchange for what she thought would be a reward of jewellery.

Pyramus and Thisbē are a pair of ill-fated lovers whose story forms part of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The Heroides (The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum (Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them.

Mater Matuta was an indigenous Latin goddess, whom the Romans eventually made equivalent to the dawn goddess Aurora, and the Greek goddess Eos.

In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus ( /kwɪˈraɪnəs/; Latin: Quirīnus, [kʷɪˈriːnʊs]) is an early god of the Roman state.

In Roman mythology, Cacus was a fire-breathing giant and the son of Vulcan.

The Metamorphoses (Latin: Metamorphōseōn librī: "Books of Transformations") is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered his magnum opus.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas.

Telegonus /təˈlɛɡənəs/ (Greek: Τηλέγονος, "born afar") is the name of three different characters in Greek mythology.

Saturn (Latin: Saturnus Latin pronunciation: [saˈtʊr.nʊs]) is a god in ancient Roman religion, and a character in myth.

Aurora (Latin: [au̯ˈroːra]) is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry.

Pygmalion (/pɪɡˈmeɪliən/; Greek: Πυγμαλίων, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος) is a legendary figure of Cyprus.

In Greek and Roman mythology, Ocnus or Bianor was a son of Manto and Tiberinus, king of Alba Longa.

In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus or Hermaphroditos /hərˌmæf.

Italus or Italos (from Greek Ἰταλός) was a legendary king of the Oenotrians, who were among the earliest inhabitants of Italy.

Amata (also called Palanto), in Roman mythology, was the wife of King Latinus of the Latins.

Lucretia (/lʊˈkriːʃə/) or Lucrece (Latin: Lucretia; died c. 510 BC) was an ancient Roman woman whose fate played a vital role in the transition of Roman government from the Roman Kingdom to the Roman Republic.

Silvanus (/sɪlˈveɪnəs/; meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and fields.

In the Aeneid, Achates ("good, faithful Achates", fidus Achates as he was called) was a close friend of Aeneas; his name became a by-word for an intimate companion.

Latinius Silvius (said to have reigned 1079–1028 BC) was the fourth descendant of Aeneas and fourth in the list of mythical kings of Alba Longa (according to Livy).

In ancient Roman religion, Roma was a female deity who personified the city of Rome and more broadly, the Roman state.

The faun (Latin: faunus, Ancient Greek: φαῦνος, phaunos, pronounced [pʰaynos]) is a mythological half human–half goat (from the head to the waist being human, but with the addition of goat horns) manifestation of forest and animal spirits that would help or hinder humans at whim.

In ancient Roman religion, the Floralia was a festival in honor of the goddess Flora, held April 27 during the Republican era, or April 28 on the Julian calendar.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (/ᵻˈniːəs/; Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineías, possibly derived from Greek αἰνή meaning "praised") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Venus (Aphrodite).

Tiberinus (said to have reigned 922-914 BC) was the ninth king of Alba Longa, according to the traditional history of Rome handed down by Titus Livius.

In Roman mythology, Lavinia (/ləˈvɪniə/; Latin: Lāuīnĭa [laːˈwiːnia]) is the daughter of Latinus and Amata and the last wife of Aeneas.

Lavinium was a port city of Latium, 53 km (33 mi) to the south of Rome, at a median distance between the Tiber river at Ostia and Anzio.

Gaius Mucius Scaevola was a Roman youth, famous for his bravery.

In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus (/ˌæmfiəˈreɪəs/; Greek: Ἀμφιάραος Amphiaraos, "doubly cursed" or "twice Ares-like") was the son of Oecles and Hypermnestra, and husband of Eriphyle.

Aventinus (said to have reigned 854-817 BC), one of the mythical kings of Alba Longa, who was buried on the Aventine Hill later named after him.

The Palici (Παλικοί in Greek), or Palaci, were a pair of indigenous Sicilian chthonic deities in Roman mythology, and to a lesser extent in Greek mythology.

In Roman mythology, Moneta (Latin Monēta) was a title given to two separate goddesses: the goddess of memory (identified with the Greek goddess Mnemosyne) and an epithet of Juno, called Juno Moneta (Latin Iūno Monēta).

In Georg Wissowa's terminology, the di indigetes or indigites were Roman deities not adopted from other religions, as distinguished from the di novensides.

Mefitis was an ancient Roman goddess.

In Roman mythology, the Aeneads (Αἰνειάδαι in Greek) were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War.

The ancient Greek word aithôn means "burning", "blazing" or "shining.

The gates of hell are various places on the surface of the world that have acquired a legendary reputation for being entrances to the underworld.

Lake Cutiliensis (modern Lago di Paterno) is a lake near the ancient Reate, now Rieti.

Carmentalia was the two feast days (11 January and 15 January) of the Roman goddess Carmenta.

Aetnaeus (Greek: Αἰτναῖος) was an epithet given to several Greek and Roman gods and mythical beings connected with Mount Aetna, such as Zeus, of whom there was a statue on Mount Aetna, and to whom a festival was celebrated there, called Aetnaea, Hephaestus, who had his workshop in the mountain, and a temple near it, and the Cyclops.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Sergestus was a Trojan friend of Aeneas.

Cicero's De Divinatione (Latin, "Concerning Divination") is a philosophical treatise in two books written in 44 BC.

The single Heroides (1–15) are not listed here: see the relevant section of that article for the single epistles.

A lapis manalis (Latin: "stone of the Manes") was either of two sacred stones used in the Roman religion.