Veritas
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thumb|upright|Statue of Veritas outside the Supreme Court of Canada
Key facts
- Deity.name
- Veritas
- Deity.deity_of
- Goddess of truth
- Deity.image
- Böcklin-Mappe 1901 Veritas (cropped).jpg
- Deity.type
- Roman
- Deity.alt
- A grainy black-and-white painting of a nude woman holding a sword
- Deity.caption
- Veritas, depicted by Arnold Böcklin
- Deity.symbols
- nudity
- Deity.offspring
- Virtus
- Deity.gender
- female
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female
- Child
- Virtus
- Father
- Saturn
- Image
- Giovanni Lanfranco Die Tugenden ubs G 0785 III Veritas.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Aletheia
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- Veritas
- worshipped by
- Roman mythology
- native label
- Veritas
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thumb|upright|Statue of Veritas outside the Supreme Court of Canada
In Roman mythology, Veritas (), meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch) and the mother of Virtus. She is also sometimes considered the daughter of Jupiter (called Zeus by the Greeks), or a creation of Prometheus. The elusive goddess is said to have hidden in the bottom of a holy well. She is depicted both as a virgin dressed in white and as the "naked truth" (nuda veritas) holding a hand mirror. The equivalent Greek goddess is Aletheia (Ancient Greek: ).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Veritas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.