Pomona
Roman · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Roman wood-nymph goddess of orchards and fruit, wooed by Vertumnus.
Domains
- orchards and fruit
Powers
- Tends and ripens the fruit trees of the orchard
Epithets
- Pomona goddess of orchard-fruit (poma), served by her own flamen PomonalisVarro, De Lingua Latina 7.45 (primary); Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.623-697 (primary)
Relations
- spouse: VertumnusWood-nymph orchard goddess won by the shape-shifter Vertumnus.Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.623-771 (Vertumnus woos and wins Pomona) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.623 (primary)