That Thessalian growth,
On which the swarthy ringdove sat,
And mystic sentence spoke....
Poem: Lewis Morris, Zeus, in The Epic of Hades.
In Art. Beside the representations of Jupiter noted in the text may be mentioned that on the eastern frieze of the Parthenon; the Jupiter Otricoli in the Vatican; also the Jupiter and Juno (painting) by Annibale Carracci; the Jupiter (sculpture) by Benvenuto Cellini.
Table A. The Great Gods of Olympus
Uranus =Gæa
+— Cronus
| =Rhea
| +— Vesta
| +— Ceres
| +— Juno
| | +Jupiter
| | +— Hebe
| | +— Mars
| | +— Vulcan
| +— Pluto
| +— Neptune
| +— Jupiter
| +— Minerva
| =Juno
| +— Hebe (see above)
| +— Mars (see above)
| +— Vulcan (see above)
| =Latona
| +— Apollo
| +— Diana
| =Dione
| +— Venus
| =Maia
| +— Mercury
| =Ceres
| +— Proserpina
| =Semele
| +— Bacchus
| =Alcmene
| +— Hercules
+— Rhea
| =Cronus
| +— Vesta (see above)
| +— Ceres (see above)
| +— Juno (see above)
| +— Pluto (see above)
| +— Neptune (see above)
| +— Jupiter (see above)
+— Cœus
| =Phœbe
| +— Latona
| =Jupiter
| +— Apollo (see above)
| +— Diana (see above)
+— Phœbe
| =Cœus
| +— Latona (see above)
+— Iapetus
+— Epimethius
| +— Dione
| =Jupiter
| +— Venus (see above)
+— Prometheus
+— Atlas
+— Maia
=Jupiter
+— Mercury (see above)
26. Juno was called by the Romans Juno Lucina, the special goddess of childbirth. In her honor wives held the festival of the Matronalia on the first of March of each year. The Latin Juno is for Diou-n-on, from the stem Diove, and is the feminine parallel of Jovis, just as the Greek Dione (one of the loves of Zeus) is the feminine of Zeus. These names (and Diana, too) come from the root div, 'to shine,' 'to illumine.' There are many points of resemblance between the Italian Juno and the Greek Dione (identified with Hera, as Hera-Dione). Both are goddesses of the moon (?), of women, of marriage; to both the cow (with moon-crescent horns) is sacred. See Roscher, 21, 576-579. But Overbeck insists that the loves of Zeus are deities of the earth: "The rains of heaven (Zeus) do not fall upon the moon."
Illustrative. W. S. Landor, Hymn of Terpander to Juno; Lewis Morris, Heré, in The Epic of Hades.
In Art. Of the statues of Juno the most celebrated was that made by Polyclitus for her temple between Argos and Mycenæ. It was of gold and ivory. See Paus. 2, 17, 4. The goddess was seated on a throne of magnificent proportions; she wore a crown upon which were figured the Graces and the Hours; in one hand she held a pomegranate, in the other a scepter surmounted by a cuckoo. Of the extant representations of Juno the most famous are the Argive Hera (Fig. 9 in the text), the torso in Vienna from Ephesus, the Hera of the Vatican at Rome, the bronze statuette in the Cabinet of Coins and Antiquities in Vienna, the Farnese bust in the National Museum in Naples, the Ludovisi bust in the villa of that name in Rome, the Pompeian wall painting of the marriage of Zeus and Hera (given by Baumeister, Denkmäler 1, 649; see also Roscher, 13, 2127), and the Juno of Lanuvium.
27. Athenë (Athena) has some characteristics of the warlike kind in common with the Norse Valkyries, but she is altogether a more ideal conception. The best description of the goddess will be found in Homer's Iliad, 5, 730 et seq.