November was the ninth month of the year after March, which was the first one on the old Roman calendar. There were very few religious obligations during the month; the Plebeian Games (November 4-17) dominated most of it. These games in honor of Jupiter were held by the plebeian aediles  in the Circus Flaminius. A feast of Jupiter (epulum Jovis) on November 13 was the central point in the Plebeian Games and divided the theatrical performances (ludi scaenici) from the circus games (ludi circenses). On the same day, festivals of Feronia and Fortuna Primigenia were held. Feronia was likely an old Etruscan agricultural goddess, but she acquired a special association with freedman and the granting of freedom to slaves. Fortuna was the goddess of fortune, and the epithet Primigenia means "original" or "firstborn." She was associated with the relationship of parents and children and directed the fortune of a newborn child at the moment of birth.

Minerva was one of the great Roman divinities. Although she was honored on Minerva's Day (November 29), her major festival, the Quinquatrus, was held in March. She shared a temple on the Capitoline with Jupiter and Juno, but she also had one on the Aventine.