god
Juno
Queen of the gods, sister and wife of Jupiter; persecutor of Hercules, the bastard son of her husband, and the divine author of his madness.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §349 royal Juno
Juno, sister and consort of Jupiter and patron goddess of Argos and Mycenae.
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Juno
Jupiter's sister and wife; the marriage-goddess invoked in the gibe about Claudius condemning Jupiter for incest.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.95.47 Juno
Juno, queen of the Roman gods and wife of Jupiter; Seneca mocks the attendants who hold a mirror for her statue.
- Hercules (Mad) §1 Sister of the Thunderer
Juno, queen of the gods and Jupiter's sister-wife, opens the play; ousted from heaven by Jupiter's catasterized mistresses, she resolves to arm Hercules against himself.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 your wife's hatred
Juno, wife of Jupiter and Hercules' implacable stepmother, who set his labors upon him; called 'the stepmother' throughout.
- Hercules on Oeta §257 wife of the Thunderer
Juno, to whom Deianira prays to send a monster against Hercules.
- Octavia §202 queen of the gods
Juno, wife and sister of Jupiter, who endured his many infidelities; the play's model for the wronged but enduring wife.
- Oedipus §403 stepmother
Juno, Jupiter's wife and the jealous stepmother from whom the infant Bacchus was disguised as a girl.