# Juno — The City of God character guide

> Juno in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Lucina, Juno Lucina

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

Roman queen of the gods, associated with marriage and childbirth, criticized as false.

## In the story

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Goddess depicted in Virgil as hostile to the Trojans, stirring up winds against them.

### [Of the asylum of Juno in Troy, which saved no one from the Greeks; and of the churches of the apostles, which protected from the barbarians all who fled to them.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv)

Goddess whose temple in Troy failed to protect the captives from the Greeks.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv)

Referenced through the goddess Coelestis and Berecynthia, associated with impure celebrations.

### [XXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxix)

Mentioned as a goddess from whom Romans trace their origin, but who did not grudge Rome's citadels as much as demons grudge mankind's eternal seat.

### [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xiii)

Mentioned as cherishing Rome's sons, yet unable to help them find wives justly.

### [Of the temple of Concord, which was erected by a decree of the senate on the scene of these seditions and massacres.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxv)

Implied as one of the three goddesses involved in the Judgment of Paris, which led to the Trojan War.

### [Chapter X: The Absurdity of Assigning Multiple Gods to Different Parts of the World](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x)

Described as the goddess of the air, sister and wife of Jove, and associated with the lower heavens.

### [Concerning the many gods whom the pagan doctors defend as being one and the same Jove](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi)

Described as Jupiter in the air, and as his sister and wife

### [Book V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-v)

Mentioned in Virgil's poetry as a deity whose hostility would change to favor for Rome.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii)

Her sacred rites in Samos, where she was married to Jupiter, are cited as an example of shameful civil theology.

### [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-x)

Juno is mentioned as having her hair arranged by women in the Capitol, and as the wrathful goddess feared by those women.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-ii)

Listed among the select gods; as Juno Lucina presides over menses.

### [Chapter III: How there is no reason which can be shown for the selection of certain gods, when the administration of more exalted offices is assigned to many inferior gods.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iii)

Select queen of gods, assigned to purgations, births, and conducting boys.

### [Concerning the Surnames of Jupiter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xi)

Mentioned in relation to the goddess Rumina and the possibility that Juno herself is nothing else than Jupiter, according to Valerius Soranus.

### [Concerning certain stars which the pagans have called by the names of their gods](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xv)

Contends with Venus over the most brilliant star.

### [Concerning Apollo and Diana, and the other select gods whom they would have to be parts of the world](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xvi)

Identified as mistress of second causes, the air, the earth, and potentially a star; also called Ceres and the Great Mother.

### [Concerning Neptune, and Salacia, and Venilia](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxii)

Mentioned indirectly through Salacia and Venilia as part of the pantheon.

### [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxviii)

Varro makes Juno signify the earth.

### [Of the power delegated to demons for the trial and glorification of the saints, who conquer not by propitiating the spirits of the air, but by abiding in God.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-xxi)

Represented as the queen of the air and hostile to virtue; Augustine uses her as a symbol of the demonic powers that martyrs overcome.

### [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xiv)

Implied as a goddess in the context of pagan worship discussed by Augustine.

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