Saturn

Roman god of agriculture and the Golden Age, honoured at the Saturnalia.

Parentage

• parent: AetherThe transmitted Latin genealogy; Greek parentage is not substituted.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface (primary)
• mother: TellusThe transmitted Latin genealogy; Greek parentage is not substituted.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface (primary)

Children

• Ceres
• Iuno
• Iuppiter
• Neptunus
• Pluto
• Vesta

Domains

• agriculture and golden age
• wealth and the treasury
• time

Powers

• Establishes Latium's Golden Age and teaches husbandry

Epithets

• Sterculius latin · Sterculius · cultOf manuring; Saturn as god of agricultural fertilization of the soilMacrob. Sat. 1.7.25; Plin. HN 17.50 (primary)
• Frugifer latin · Frugifer · literaryFruit-bearing / crop-bringing; Saturn the giver of the harvestcf. Verg. Aen. 8.319-325 (Saturn and the Golden Age of crops); Macrob. Sat. 1.10 (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: OpsReciprocal of roman_ops.spouse — Ops consort of Saturn; their children (Pluto, Vesta) already carry both as parents in the registry.Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.10.20; Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.57-64 (primary)
• parent: AetherThe transmitted Latin genealogy; Greek parentage is not substituted.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface (primary)
• mother: TellusThe transmitted Latin genealogy; Greek parentage is not substituted.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface (primary)
• counterpart of: CronusLatin mythographic counterpart of the Greek record; identities and accounts remain distinct.Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface; Hesiod, Theogony 453–458, 912–939 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Virgil, Aeneid 8.319; Ovid, Fasti 1.235 (primary)