Word: juno
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with Nature, which to them was always good. Their emotions and passions were natural, on the surface, never restrained by social conventions. The perfect man was he who properly balanced and developed all the natural instincts in himself. Their intensely imaginative minds gave to their divinities a distinct idealization. Juno-the protector of the family-was conceived to be beautiful and severe; Venus was gentleness itself; Diana's nature was wild, untamed. It was to these ideal conceptions that the Greek sculptors were called upon to give worthy physical form. With such high ideals, and amid such favorable conditions...
March 11.- The Roman Worship of Mars, Jupitor, Juno in the Earlier Times. Frederick DeForest Allen, Ph. D., Professor of Classical Philology...