id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-540 List of Roman deities - Wikipedia .html text/html 6552 937 65 The first Augusta was Livia, wife of Octavian, and the title is then shared by various state goddesses including Bona Dea, Ceres, Juno, Minerva, and Ops; by many minor or local goddesses; and by the female personifications of Imperial virtues such as Pax and Victoria. Divine male-female complements such as these, as well as the anthropomorphic influence of Greek mythology, contributed to a tendency in Latin literature to represent the gods as "married" couples or (as in the case of Venus and Mars) lovers.[citation needed] Livia, wife of Augustus, dressed as the goddess Ops. Elsewhere, Varro claims Sol Indiges, who had a sacred grove at Lavinium, as Sabine but at the same time equates him with Apollo.[21] Of those listed, he writes, "several names have their roots in both languages, as trees that grow on a property line creep into both fields. Virtus, god or goddess of military strength, personification of the Roman virtue of virtus. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-540.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-540.txt