Diana

Also known as: Diana Trivia / Leucophrynaean Diana / Persian Diana · Family: mythological · Role: goddess · 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”
siblings with Apollo “the big-bellied Latona, leaning upon an olive tree, which even then remained, was delivered of these deities”
patron: Hercules “by the concession of Hercules, when he reigned in Lydia, her temple was dignified with an augmentation of immunities”
patron: Lucius Scipio “the former after the defeat of Antiochus; the latter after that of Mithridates, having, as a testimony of the faith and bravery of the Magnesians, dignified their temple of the Leucophrynaean Diana with the privileges of an inviolable sanctuary”
patron: Sylla “the former after the defeat of Antiochus; the latter after that of Mithridates, having, as a testimony of the faith and bravery of the Magnesians, dignified their temple of the Leucophrynaean Diana with the privileges of an inviolable sanctuary”
patron: Perpenna “They likewise pleaded the authorities of Perpenna, Isauricus, and of many more Roman captains, who had allowed the same sacred immunity not to the temple only, but to a precinct two miles round it”
patron: Isauricus “They likewise pleaded the authorities of Perpenna, Isauricus, and of many more Roman captains, who had allowed the same sacred immunity not to the temple only, but to a precinct two miles round it”
with Cyrus (Cyrus consecrated Diana's temple.) “that they possessed the Persian Diana, and her temple consecrated by King Cyrus”

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