Details of Minerva personified on coins
Minerva is a war-goddess. She wears a helmet and an aegis (a snake-skin cloak fastened over the breastplate with a gorgon-head) and carries a spear and shield.
Sometimes she is shown holding a small figure of Victory and is easily confused with Roma. Minerva appears of coins from the 3rd century BC until the 3rd century AD and is particularly common on copper asses of Claudius I (AD 41-54) and on silver denarii of Domitian (AD 81-96). Like Mars she is sometimes given the title Pacifera (‘The Pace-bringer’) and holds an olive branch.
Attributes
- Aegis
- Helmet
- Shield and spear
Greek counterpart
Minerva can be identified with the Greek deity Athena
Wikipedia derived information
Minerva was the Roman goddess whom Hellenizing Romans from the 2nd century BC onwards equated with the Greek goddess Athena.
She was the virgin goddess of poetry, medicine, wisdom, commerce, weaving, crafts, magic, and the inventor of musicirca She is often depicted with her sacred creature, an owl, which symbolizes her ties to wisdom. This article focuses on Minerva in ancient Rome and in cultic practice. For information on Latin literary mythological accounts of Minerva, which were heavily influenced by Greek mythology, see Pallas Athena, where she is one of three virgin goddesses along with Artemis and Hestia, known by the Romans as Diana and Vesta..
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minerva
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