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The Capitoline Triad was comprised of three deities of Roman mythology who were worshipped most famously in an elaborate temple on Rome's Capitoline Hill. Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,823,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Piazza del Campidoglio, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the façade of Palazzo Senatorio. ...


The three deities thus honoured were Jupiter, the King of the Gods, his wife and half-sister Juno, and their daughter Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom. The temple was built under the reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last King of Rome prior to the establishment of the Roman Republic. Jupiter et Thétis - by Jean Ingres, 1811. ... Juno was a Roman goddess, the equivalent of the Greek Hera, queen of the gods. ... Minerva was a Roman goddess of crafts and wisdom. ... Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (also called Tarquin the Proud or Tarquin II) was the last of the seven legendary kings of Rome, son of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, and son-in-law of Servius Tullius. ... See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ...


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The Capitoline Triad was comprised of three deities of Roman mythology who were worshipped most famously in an elaborate temple on Rome's Capitoline Hill.
Triads can be built on any note of a scale, and they are named with Roman numerals according to the scale note that is their root.
The chord of the submediant is a triad...
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