Mythological — Minor Figures

9 figures from Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Apollo

god · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · parent: Latona “the big-bellied Latona, leaning upon an olive tree, which even then remained, was delivered of these deities”
• Annals III (11) · siblings with Diana “the big-bellied Latona, leaning upon an olive tree, which even then remained, was delivered of these deities”

Hercules

hero · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · protégé: Diana “by the concession of Hercules, when he reigned in Lydia, her temple was dignified with an augmentation of immunities”

Latona

goddess · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · child: Diana “the big-bellied Latona, leaning upon an olive tree, which even then remained, was delivered of these deities”
• Annals III (11) · child: Apollo “the big-bellied Latona, leaning upon an olive tree, which even then remained, was delivered of these deities”

Saturn

god · first appears Histories V.1-4

• Histories V.1-4 · enemies with Jupiter “It is said that the Jews are refugees from Crete, who settled on the confines of Libya at the time when Saturn was forcibly deposed by Jupiter.”

Teucer

founder · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · parent: Telamon “the third to the Salaminian Jupiter by Teucer, the son of Telamon, when he fled from the fury of his father”
• Annals III (11) · with Jupiter “the third to the Salaminian Jupiter by Teucer, the son of Telamon, when he fled from the fury of his father”

Venus

goddess · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · with Aerias “the most ancient founded by Aerias to the Paphian Venus”
• Annals III (11) · with Amathus “another by his son Amathus to the Amathusian Venus”

Telamon

father · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · child: Teucer “the third to the Salaminian Jupiter by Teucer, the son of Telamon, when he fled from the fury of his father”

Aerias

founder · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · child: Amathus “another by his son Amathus to the Amathusian Venus”
• Annals III (11) · with Venus “the most ancient founded by Aerias to the Paphian Venus”

Amathus

founder · first appears Annals III (11)

• Annals III (11) · parent: Aerias “another by his son Amathus to the Amathusian Venus”
• Annals III (11) · with Venus “another by his son Amathus to the Amathusian Venus”

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Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.