god
Aeneas Indiges
Indiges
also: Iuppiter Indiges
The deified Aeneas, worshipped as a local god ('Indiges') by the Romans after the river Numicius washed away his mortal part.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.458 Indiges
Aeneas deified -- 'Indiges,' a native or ancestral god worshipped with temple and altars; the first of the book's three Roman apotheoses (Aeneas, Romulus, and -- closing the poem -- Caesar).
- Metamorphoses §15.518 native Heroes
The Di Indigetes, the deified native heroes of Rome (notably Aeneas).