Spes

Numerous temples to Spes are known, and inscriptions indicate that she received private devotion as well as state cult.

[1] During the Republic, a temple to "ancient Hope" (Spes vetus) was supposed to have been located near the Praenestine Gate.

[5] A well-documented Temple of Spes was built by Aulus Atilius Calatinus[6][3] along with Fides, as the result of vows (vota) made to these goddesses during the First Punic War.

Spes Augusta was Hope associated with the capacity of the emperor as Augustus to ensure blessed conditions.

[11] Like Salus ("Salvation, Security"), Ops ("Abundance, Prosperity"), and Victoria ("Victory"), Spes was a power that had to come from the gods, in contrast to divine powers that resided within the individual such as Mens ("Intelligence"), Virtus ("Virtue"), and Fides ("Faith, Fidelity, Trustworthiness").

An ancient Roman coin with Spes on the reverse.
Columns from the Temple of Spes at the Forum Olitorium were incorporated into the San Nicola in Carcere church
The Temple of Spes with those of Piety and Juno Sospita at the Forum Olitorium, drawn by Lanciani
The area of the Forum Olitorium and Theater of Marcellus in the scale model of ancient Rome at the Museum of Roman Civilization