Iuno Liviae: Raising Women’s Spirits in the Age of Augustus Open Access
Marvil, Sabrina (Spring 2025)
Abstract
This work seeks to discover where the iunones came from and what their role was in Roman religion especially as it relates to the political & legal climate of the Augustan Era. Supplementary to this main question I’m also interested in what could have created a need for a female guardian spirit to exist, and what the differences between the genius and iuno can tell us about gender in religion during this time period. There has been some previous scholarship on the origin of the iunones, proposing theories of the iunones as archaic in the same way as the genii or as foreign imports from Celtic territories. I believe there is evidence that the iunones came about during the Augustan period either by intentional creation from the state or as a response to social change and new needs in religious ceremonies.
Table of Contents
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Introduction………………………………………………………………1
Chapter I: Household & Individual Gods………………………………...4
Chapter II: Current Scholarly Beliefs on the Origin of the Iunones……..18
Chapter III: Ignored Images………………………………………………32
Chapter IV: Augustan Origins……………………………………………56
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