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Jupiter turned her into a nymph and gave her a sacred well in Lavinium, Latium, as well as another one near the temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum.
Juturna had an affair with Jupiter but the secret was betrayed by a nymph named Lara, whom Jupiter struck with muteness as punishment.
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She was a sister of Turnus (Turnus: in roman mythology, turnus was a chieftain of the rutuli whose conflict with aeneas...
Jupiter turned her into a nymph (nymph: (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden) and gave her a sacred well in Lavinium (Lavinium: lavinium was an ancient roman city of the latium, said to have been named by...
Juturna had an affair with Jupiter but the secret was betrayed by a nymph (nymph: (classical mythology) a minor nature goddess usually depicted as a beautiful maiden) named Lara (Lara: lara may refer to...
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Lacus Felicitatis, or Lake of Happiness, is a small patch of the lunar surface that has been inundated by flows of lava, leaving a level patch with a lower albedo than the surrounding ground.
It is located in an area of continental ground to the north of the Mare Vaporum.
The selenographic coordinates of the Lacus Felicitatis are 19.0° N, 5.0° E, and it has a maximum extent of 90 km.
The picture on the left shows the most distinctive feature of the LacusJuturna (Iuturna, Iuturnae), the Aedicula, or small niche flanked by columns, which dates to the time of Trajan and is standing in front of the Oratory of the 40 Martyrs.
The temple was built to house the cult of the nymph Juturna, daughter of Turnus, king of the Ruteli in the 2nd Century BC.
On the right is a shot of the Hall of Opus in Latericium in the background with the LacusJuturna the rectangle shown centrally.
Janus was also said to have married the Nymph Juturna and to have had a son by her, the god FONS or Fontus" (Ev Butterworth, Rome Around, http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/HAA/Events/EH337.html).
"Juturna - The Roman goddess of wells and springs, sister of Turnus (the king of Rutuli) whom she supported in his battle against Aeneas.
She also gave her name to a well near the Vesta-temple of the Forum Romanum, called the LacusJuturnae.
The Lacus Curtius is a mysterious hole in the ground in the Roman Forum, now small, more or less filled in and paved over with ancient stone, but once said to have been a widening chasm.
It is not known what the nature of its significance in Rome's early history, and this was already the case by the late Republican period.
Alternately, the Lacus was named after Mettius Curtius, a Sabine horseman who rode into or fell into it while fighting against Romulus.
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At the end of the First Punic War Lutatius Catulus erected a temple in her honor on the Campus Martius, subsequentlyrestored by Augustus.
In Virgil, Juturna appears as the sister of Turnus (probably owing to the partial similarity of the names), on whom Jupiter, to console her for the loss of her chastity, bestowed immortality and the control of all the lakes and rivers of Latium.
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The first temple of Castor and Pollux was built in 484 B.C. by the son of the dictator Aulus Postumius in thanksgiving for the defeat of the Tarquins, which was attributed to the help of the Dioscuri.
According to legend, after the victory Castor and Pollux rode to Rome and watered their horses at a spring in the Forum, the LacusJuturnae (the position of which has been located).
The temple was rebuilt in the reign of Tiberius (A.D. first century), and of this temple there survive three Corinthian columns 12m/40ft high, popularly known as the "Three Sisters".
Dietro la colonna di Foca, dopo il Lacus Curtius, sulla destra si vede il nucleo del basamento della colossale statua equestre di Domiziano, eretta dopo la vittoria dell’imperatore sui Germani (91).
Sul margine destro della piazza del foro si allineano sette basi di laterizi, già rivestiti di marmi, del tempio di Diocleziano ; sulle prime due sono state ricomposte due colossali colonne di granito e di pavonazzetto con i frammenti scoperti nel 1873.
Ma le memorie più antiche dei dioscuri sono conservate al di là della strada che fiancheggia a est il tempio, nel vicino Lagus Juturnae : una vasca quadrilatera a gradini, con un nucleo centrale di forma rettangolare.
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Even though this temple honored both Castor and his twin brother Pollux, who were collectively called the Dioscuri, Romans called it the Temple of Castor or of the Castores (you think to youself that Castor always did get more attention!).
The temple was originally dedicated, according to Livy, in 484 BCE next to the Pool of Juturna (lacusJuturnae), the goddess of springs whom you remember from her prominent role in the last part of Vergil's Aeneid.
The founding of this temple is generally thought to have been the introduction of the cult of these two brothers into Rome.
Juturna, in a festival called the Juturnalia on the anniversary of the day on which her temple was erected in the Campus Martius (Field of Mars, where soldiers trained, a place dedicated to the Roman god of war, Mars) by
Roman mythology, Juturna was the goddess of fountains, wells and springs, nymph of the fountain in Latium, waters of which were famous for their reputed healing powers.
Lara, whom Jupiter struck with muteness as punishment.
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c.) A pond in the forum, between the temples of Castor and Vesta, was called LacusJuturnae, whence we must infer that the name of the nymph Juturna is not connected with jugis, but probably withjuvare.
She is said to have been beloved by Jupiter, who rewarded her with immor tality and the rule over the waters.