Classical Mythology
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 629 archaic figure-eight shape; since it was a talisman of Roman power, Numa had eleven others made exa ...
630 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY in the English word "mint," for Juno's temple on the Arx was next to the Ro- man Mint, which w ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 631 The second Roman king, Numa, was said to have founded the cult of Vesta. The myths of Vesta are few ...
(^632) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY from Hercules and had hidden them in his cave on the Aventine Hill. Here is the climax of t ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA^633 obscure Italian deity Lua. In the cult of Ops, her partner was Consus, an Italian harvest deity, wh ...
634 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY painting with this title, now in Dresden. In this work Poussin has gathered six of the young m ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 635 famous festival of the Lupercalia, which took place in February. The Arcadian king Evander was said ...
636 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY In about 55 B.C. Lucretius began his poem with an eloquent invocation to Venus as the creative ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 637 on the distant grass, yet she still was sleeping soundly. He rejoiced; and lifting her dress from h ...
(^638) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY cated to the Camenae, water-nymphs of great antiquity but unknown origin. Later they were i ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 639 f Guardian of mountains and woods, virgin, you who, when called upon three times, hear women labori ...
640 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY ent philosophical, religious, and literary sources, most of them Greek. The na- tive Italian i ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 641 with spirits of the dead, particularly of ancestors, the Lares were probably house- hold spirits in ...
(^642) THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY Cattle of Geryon and there killed the monster Cacus (pp. 631-632). To com- memorate the eve ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 643 same price. This time, acting on the advice of the augurs (an important group of priests), Tarquin ...
644 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY however, and its processions, celebrated in April, were a colorful and popular feature of the ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 645 Map 26.2. Map of Early Rome. (© Laszlo Kubinyi, 1994.) Thus there was Homeric authority for the dev ...
646 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY The early Roman historians also developed the legend of Aeneas. Around 200 B.c. Fabius Pictor, ...
ROMAN MYTHOLOGY AND SAGA 647 who foretold that he would reach Italy and would only found his new city when hunger had compelled ...
648 THE NATURE OF ROMAN MYTHOLOGY between the Latin allies and the Trojans Aeneas killed Turnus in single combat. At this point ...
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