Hi, love you blog! I was wondering if you had anymore research on Juno.
Hello! Juno is one of my current research projects, but unfortunately I have yet to find as comprehensive of an integrated source as I’d like.
A lot of Juno scholarship revolves around her characterization in the Aeneid, which often has precious little to reveal about actual cult practice. I have included some of those articles below, however, as they do reveal how large Juno loomed for the Romans. Though she was part of the Capitoline triad, she was ostensibly a foreign goddess who had to be won over from Veii and Carthage alike. In that sense, she is a powerful force of opposition, always questioning whether our Roman “heroes” are in the right.
Juno in the Aeneid:
Clay, Diskin. “The Archaeology of the Temple to Juno in Carthage (Aen. 1.446-93).” Classical Philology 83-3, 1988.
Connelly, Coleman. “Causae Irarum Saevique Dolores: Understanding Juno’s Emotions in the Aeneid.” Dissertation for Princeton University, 2010.
Feeney, D. “The Reconciliations of Juno.” The Classical Quarterly 34-1, 1984.
Lowenstam, Steven. “The Pictures on Juno’s Temple in the Aeneid.” The Classical World 87-2, 1993.
Temples and Cults:
Hardie, Alex. “Juno, Hercules, and the Muses at Rome.” The American Journal of Philology 128-4, 2007. A look at the intersections between reconciliation, harmony, and music -- I highly recommend this one.
Hermans, Rianne. “Juno Sospita: A Foreign Goddess Through Roman Eyes.” In Processes of Integration and Identity Formation in the Roman Republic, 2012.
Jaeger, Mary. “Livy, Hannibal’s Monument, and the Temple of Juno at Croton.” TAPA 136-2, 2006.
Schultz, Celia. “Juno Sospita and Roman Insecurity in the Social World.” In Religion in Republican Rome, 2006.
Tucci, Pier. “Where high Moneta leads her steps sublime. The Tabularium and the Temple of Juno Moneta.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 18, 2005.
Ziolkowski, Adam. “Between Geese and the Auguraculum: The Origin of the Cult of Juno on the Arx.” Classical Philology 88-3, 1993.
Misc.:
Alcock, Joan. “The Concept of Genius in Roman Britain.” In Pagan Gods and Shrines of the Roman Empire. 1986. See pgs. 129-131 for discussion of the Junones (female counterpart to the Genii).
Bruun, Patrick. “Evocatio Deorum: Some notes on the Romanization of Etruria.” In The Myth of the State, 1972. Recounts multiple Juno examples, as she received more evocatio’s than any other deity.
