Goddesses of Peace

Did you, or do you, have trouble keeping the Greek gods and goddesses and their Roman equivalents straight? For instance, the Roman goddess of peace is Pax. I had long known that the word pax was Latin for peace, but had never thought about it being the name of a goddess. If anything it sounded more like a male name.

This is a statue of Pax in the garden of Pavlovsk Palace, Saint Petersburg. She was the daughter of Jupiter and Justice.

Even longer than I have known Pax meant peace, I have known my middle name means peace. I've known since grade school, when, in the back of the Webster's Dictionary, I found the six pages of A Pronouncing Vocabulary of Common English Given Names. There it was, Irene (Gk) peace. (Ramona was also there [via feminine of Ramon (Sp) variation of Raymond (Gmc)] wise protection. Therefore I was a wise protector of the peace.)

So how did I miss that Eirene (Irene) is the Greek goddess of peace? Or is it one of those arcane bits of knowledge I once possessed and then forgot?
And how would I feel if Mom had spelled my name with an Ei instead of just I? A REL not a RIL? Hmm.

The Greek statue of Eirene holds the infant, Plutus. Her parents were Zeus and Themis, the goddess of law and order. Named as I was I should probably have gone into law enforcement or become a lawyer, definitely on the side of justice, wisely protecting the peace.