ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

The capitolium portrays Mediterranean mythological themes as well as imagery ofcommon Etruscan and Roman genealogical myths. 17Thus, the capitolium as a physicalmonument displayed the need of the colonists for cooperation with their Etruscanneighbors in their new port-based community. To the greater Roman audience in Rome(and perhaps more specifically to Lepidus), however, the presence of a capitolium in oneof the large, citizen colonies suggested that the shift in the size of the citizen coloniesaccompanied a shift in the conception of what a colony should be. I posit that, in theearly second century, colonies were only beginning to be conceived as little models ofRome through the introduction of & capitolium. Moreover, this shift did not arise from apolicy promulgated by the senate in Rome as a whole, but under the influence of asmaller group of magistrates and the colonists who became their clients.To summarize: Juno appeared in the mid-Republican colonies as Juno Quiritis(Beneventum), Juno as Hera (Paestum), Juno Lucina and Juno Regina (Pisaurum), andJuno Regina as part of the Capitoline Triad (Luna). These colonial cults derived theirorigins from very different sources. The goddess in Beneventum had clear Latin origins;she only reached Rome itself twenty years after the foundation of Beneventum. Juno inPaestum arose from syncretism with the goddess Hera, who had been one of the patrondeities of the former Greek colony in that location. Juno Lucina and Juno Regina weregoddess from Latium and Etruria who made their way into Rome in 375 and 396 BCE,respectively. Thus, their attestations in the grove outside of Pisaurum could have beeninspired by worshippers from anywhere in the area around the Tiber Valley. Finally, JunoStrazzula(1992), p. 182.199