The sister and wife of Faunus. She was a divinity of women, identified with Bona Dea for whom she was perhaps originally merely an apithet: the favourable goddess in Latin (quae favet). As Bona Dea she appeared in the cycle of Hercules, in which she was the wife of the Latin King Faunus. Hercules loved her and gave her a son, the future King Latinus… (Grimal, 1990)
