- Ingrid Krauskopf –
Figure 25.1 Mirror Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico It. 1073: Birth of Athena.
After Gerhard, ES pl. 66.Figure 25.2 Mirror St. Petersburg B (or V) 505. Turan and Atunis, with trabants in the outer circle.
After Gerhard, ES pl. 322.Nigidius Figulus) hands down a subdivision of the sky in which the Penates of Jupiter
(N–E), Neptune (E–S?), the Underworld (inferorum, W–N) and the mortals (mortalium
omnium, S–W?), are assigned to the four sections.^4 In another schema (Pliny NH 2.143–
144), the regions of the sky are ordered according to their effects: in the north-western
quarter there are the regiones maxime dirae, in the north-east, the regiones summae felicitatis,
in the south-east, the minus prosperae, and in the south-west, the minus dirae (Fig. 25.3).
Occasionally, the chief divinities of sanctuaries which were of interest to the Greeks or
Romans are named: Leukothea (or Eileithyia) or Mater Matuta, as well as Apollo in Pyrgi
(see below); in Veii Juno, who (as a statue), after the Roman conquest of Veii, had been
brought to Rome in the rite of evocatio, and was dedicated a temple on the Aventine as