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Minerva and Etruscan
Extrapolating from her Roman nature, it is assumed that in Etruscan mythology, Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, war, art, schools and commerce.
In addition the Greek gods were taken into the Etruscan system: Aritimi ( Artemis ), Menrva ( Minerva ), Pacha ( Dionysus ).
The extravagant claims of Varro and Cicero that augury, divination by dreams and the worship of Minerva and Mars originated with the Sabines are disputable, as they were general Italic and Latin customs, as well as Etruscan, despite the fact that they were espoused by Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome and a Sabine.
There is other significant Etruscan evidence: parts of walls, an Etruscan necropolis on Poggio del Sole ( still named " Hill of the Sun "), and most famously, the two bronzes, the " Chimera of Arezzo " ( 5th century BC ) and the " Minerva " ( 4th century BC ) which were discovered in the 16th century and taken to Florence.
The first " outsider " Etruscan king, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, founded a Capitoline temple to the triad Jupiter, Juno and Minerva which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the Roman world.
Minerva began her mythological career as a local Italian deity ( Etruscan, but possibly with Greek influences ), patroness of the arts and crafts.
To his Etruscan founders the meaning of this triad might have been related to peculiarly Etruscan ideas on the association of the three gods with the birth of Herakles and the siege of Troy, in which Minerva plays a decisive role as a goddess of destiny along with the sovereign couple Uni Tinia.
The one most commonly referred to as the " Capitoline Triad " is the more recent of the two, consisting of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva and drawing on Etruscan mythology.
This group, mirroring the Etruscan divine triad, consisted of Jupiter, the king of the gods ; Juno ( in her aspect as Iuno Regina, " Queen Juno "), his wife and sister ; and Jupiter's daughter Minerva, the goddess of wisdom.

Minerva and Menrva
It is possible that the Etruscans paid particular attention to Menrva ( Minerva ) as a goddess of destiny, in addition to the royal couple Uni ( Juno ) and Tinia ( Jupiter ).
Examples are Aritimi ( Artemis ), Menrva ( Minerva ; Latin equivalent of Athena ), and Pacha ( Bacchus ; Latin equivalent of Dionysus ), and over time the primary trinity became Tinia, Uni and Menrva.
Menrva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, later reflected in the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.

Minerva and was
Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).
The first football match at which there were any gate receipts was when Fulham played against Minerva in the Middlesex Senior Cup, on 10 October 1886.
She was buried in the cemetery of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which lies near the Pantheon.
She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry.
The goddess he worshipped the most zealously however was Minerva.
The reverse depicts the Roman goddess Minerva, who was Domitian's favoured deity, and appeared on numerous coin types throughout his reign.
Veneration of Serapis and Isis, who were identified with Jupiter and Minerva respectively, was especially prominent.
Part of the curriculum of this studium was relocated in 1288 at the studium of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which in the 16th century world be transformed into the College of Saint Thomas ().
In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.
Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.
Minerva, who was supporting the Greeks, at this moment sent sea-serpents to strangle Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.
Like Athena, Minerva was born from the head of her father, Jupiter ( Greek Zeus ).
Minerva was part of a holy triad with Tinia and Uni, equivalent to the Roman Capitoline Triad of Jupiter-Juno-Minerva.
Minerva was the daughter of Jupiter.
As Minerva Medica, she was the goddess of medicine and doctors.
As Minerva Achaea, she was worshipped at Luceria in Apulia where votive gifts and arms said to be those of Diomedes were preserved in her temple.
" Minerva was worshipped throughout Italy, though only in Rome did she take on the warlike character shared by Athena.
In 207 BC, a guild of poets and actors was formed to meet and make votive offerings at the temple of Minerva on the Aventine hill.
Minerva was worshipped on the Capitoline Hill as one of the Capitoline Triad along with Jupiter and Juno, at the Temple of Minerva Medica, and at the " Delubrum Minervae " a temple founded around 50 BC by Pompey on the site now occupied by the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva facing the present-day Piazza della Minerva.
* Minerva is the name and the patroness of the most ancient student-association of Leiden and was established in 1819.

Minerva and Roman
The Roman name for Athena is Minerva.
As a token of respect for Roman religion, however, Elagabalus joined either Astarte, Minerva, Urania, or some combination of the three to Elagabal as wife.
These vows are to the primary Roman gods-Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva ( the Capitoline Triad )- but other shipwrecked sailors are said to make offerings to Isis.
His face is presented along with other ancient figures such as Solomon, the Greek god Zeus and the Roman goddess of wisdom, Minerva.
The Aventine sanctuary of Minerva continued to be an important center of the arts for much of the middle Roman Republic.
Raised-relief image of Minerva on a Roman gilt silver bowl, 1st century BC
" Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom has been the institution's enduring symbol.
* The Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, features a Roman marble statue of Minerva in its 4th floor atrium.
* A small Roman shrine to Minerva ( the only one still in situ in the UK ) stands in Handbridge, Chester.
This vase suggests he was descended partly from Apollo ( thus partly divine, shades of Achilles ), whom he worshiped as a God, gave private parties in his honor together with Minerva, Roman Goddess of War, from the founder of Rome, and his connection to his uncle Julius Caesar, for whom as a young man he gave a remarkable funeral oratory, and who adopted him on his father's death, when he was only four.
and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva ; however, the name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ( literally, " the waters of Sulis ").
During the Communist rule, mass tourism facilities were built, such as the 8-12 levels tall concrete hotels Roman, Hercules A, Hercules B, Afrodita, Minerva, Diana, UGSR, etc.
File: Testa di Minerva S. Giulia Brescia. JPG | Head of Athena, Roman copy
Pallas Athena ( better known as Athena, Minerva is her Roman name ) placed him in a willow basket and told the sisters not to look on the mysteries.
According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses ), a Roman poet writing in 8 AD, who was noted for accuracy regarding the Greek myths, Medusa alone had serpents in her hair, and he explained that this was due to Athena ( Roman Minerva ) cursing her.
Roman remains can still be found in Assisi: city walls, the forum ( now Piazza del Comune ), a theatre, an amphitheatre and the Temple of Minerva ( now transformed into the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva ).
The Emperor also tried to bring about a union of Roman and Syrian religion under the supremacy of his deity, which he placed even above Jupiter, and to which he assigned either Astarte, Minerva or Urania, or some combination of the three, as wife.
Vacuna was an ancient Sabine goddess, identified by ancient Roman sources and later scholars with numerous other goddesses, including Ceres, Diana, Nike, Minerva, Bellona, Venus and Victoria.

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