Note 1265 — Chapter XXI · DIANUS AND DIANA

Mr. A. B. Cook, who accepts in substance my theory of the original identity of Jupiter and Janus, Juno and Diana, has suggested that Janus and Diana were the deities of the aborigines of Rome, Jupiter and Juno the deities of their conquerors. See his article, “Zeus, Jupiter, and the Oak,” Classical Review, xviii. (1904) pp. 367 sq.