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Key facts
- Deity.type
- Roman
- Deity.name
- Quirinus
- Deity.deity_of
- God of the Roman state
- Deity.member_of
- the Archaic Triad
- Deity.image
- Denarius C. Memmius C. F. Romulus.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Denarius picturing Quirinus on the obverse, and Ceres enthroned on the reverse, a commemoration by a moneyer in 56 BCE of a Cerealia presented by an earlier Gaius Memmius as aedile
- Deity.other_names
- Curinus, Corinus, Querinus, Queirinus
- Deity.cult_center
- Quirinal Hill
- Deity.symbols
- beard, religious and military clothing
- Deity.abode
- Quirinal Hill
- Deity.consort
- Hersilia-Hora
- Deity.gender
- male
- Deity.festivals
- Quirinalia
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Name
- Attestations
- Etymology
- Depiction and worship
- History
- Deified Romulus
- Brelich's argument for split deification
- The Grabovian pantheon
- The Capitoline Triad
- Fade into obscurity
- Legacy
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Modern sources
- Ancient sources
- Further reading
In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus ( , ) is an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, Mars, and Jupiter.
== Name ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quirinus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.