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Veiove o Vediove (latino Vediovis) è un dio romano, oggetto di culto fin da età molto antica, ma la cui esatta natura non è del tutto chiara. Sappiamo che Veiove è il protettore dell'Asylum, il bosco sacro di rifugio che si trovava nella sella del Campidoglio (inter duos lucos, cioè " tra i due boschi sacri").
Vejovis or Vejove ( Latin: Vēiovis or Vēdiovis; rare Vēive or Vēdius) was a Roman god of Etruscan origins. Representation and worship. Vejovis was portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows (or lightning bolts), or a pilum, in his hand, and accompanied by a goat. Romans believed that Vejovis was one of the first gods to be born.
VEIOVE in "Enciclopedia dell' Arte Antica" - Treccani - Treccani. VEIOVE (Vēdiovis, Vēiovis) A. M. Colini. Antichissima divinità romana di origine italica od etrusca, il cui carattere originario è incerto (esso già sfuggiva agli antichi: Cic., De nat. deor., ii, 62).
Vediovis, orVedivs. Vejovis, in Roman religion, a god of uncertain attributes, worshiped at Rome between the two summits of the Capitoline Hill (the Arx and the Capitol) and on Tiber Island (both temples date from just after 200 bc) and at Bovillae, 12 miles southeast of Rome.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
23 nov 2018 · Vejovis (sometimes spelt Vediovis) was an obscure Roman deity. He is poorly attested in both written sources and archaeology, and his nature is debated by scholars. His name is related to Jove , and some authors described him as either a 'little Jupiter' or 'anti-Jupiter.' Others have implied an association with the underworld.
- Tyler Holman
The identification is made from the deity's Latin names related by a number of ancient authors over the centuries: Vēi, Vēdi, Vēdii, Veiovis, Vediovis, Vediiovis, Vedius. Vesuna: Italic goddess mentioned also in the Iguvine Tables. Zerene: Macedonian goddess Zeirene Eleusia, Latin Ceres.
The Temple of Veiovis in ancient Rome was the temple of the god Veiovis, built sometime in the early 1st century BC. In literature. The temple was sited in the saddle of ground "inter duos lucos", between two sacred groves, one on the Arx and one on the Capitolium (the two peaks of the Capitoline Hill ). [1] .
