a Roman divinity, corresponding in most of her attributes to the Hera of the Greeks. She was the daughter of Saturn and Rhea, the sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven; and, as the only married goddess among the Olympians, the especial protectress of marriage and married women. Many places of Greece contested the honour of having given her birth, especially Argos and Samos, which long remained the principal seats of her worship. Though the Samian temple of the goddess was the largest and most splendid, Argos seems to have been the cradle of her worship, which at a very remote period spread through the Peloponnesus, and thence into all the adjoining countries. In Greek sculptures and reliefs Juno is generally represented in a splendid stola, sometimes sitting or standing in a light car drawn by peacocks, and attended by the Aurie or air-nymphs, or by Iris, the goddess of the rainbow. At Rome she was worshipped under the titles of Promula, as the goddess of marriage; Matrona, as the goddess of married women; Lucina, as presiding over child-birth; Moneta, as the warner, in which capacity she had a temple on the capitol on the site of Manlius' house. In this temple the mint was afterwards established. Her other titles were very numerous, but they all had reference to some of the qualities indicated in those already mentioned. The great annual festival in her honour, in which all the married women of Rome took part, was called Matronalia, and was celebrated on the first day of March.