Quirinus

Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains
the deified Romulus, the Roman people
Giacomo Caneva, photograph of a statue of Jupiter in the Campana collection, 1850s.
Giacomo Caneva, photograph of a statue of Jupiter in the Campana collection, 1850s.

Key myth

Identified with Romulus after his disappearance in the story, Quirinus had a priest (flamen) and a hill, the Quirinal.

Where sources differ or caution applies. Ancient authors disagreed whether Quirinus was Romulus or a Sabine god.

Primary sources

  • Livy I.16
  • Ovid, Fasti II

All sources for the Roman pantheon

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

SaturnOpsJanusJupiterJunoNeptunePluto / Dis PaterCeresVestaQuirinusMinervaApolloDianaMercuryBacchus / LiberMarsVulcanVenus

More traditions

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Quirinus: war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Odin

wisdom, poetry, war

Norse

Thor

thunder, protection of gods and people, strength

Norse

Freyja

love, desire, magic (seiðr)

Norse

Týr

law, oaths, war

Egyptian

Seth

storm, desert, chaos

Egyptian

Horus

kingship, sky

Egyptian

Sekhmet

war, plague, healing

Mesopotamian

Enlil

wind, command, the fates of cities

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