She was named after Juno Sospita, the Roman goddess of war and protection, the actress later revealed. Turner-Smith chose the ...

A statue of a young woman depicted as the goddess Juno The Roman Empire was polytheistic - this means that people worshipped more than one god. Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion ...

Roman religion was split in two ... important gods were Jupiter (protector of the state), Juno (protector of women) and Minerva (goddess of craft and wisdom). Other major gods included Mars ...

The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as ...