Dea Dia

Dea Dia (Latin: "Goddess of Daylight", or "Bright Goddess") was a goddess of fertility and growth in ancient Roman religion. She was sometimes identified with Ceres, and sometimes with her Greek equivalent Demeter.[1]

Religion in
ancient Rome
Marcus Aurelius (head covered)
sacrificing at the Temple of Jupiter
Practices and beliefs
Priesthoods
Deities

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She was worshiped during Ambarvalia, a festival to Ceres.[2] Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held a three-day festival in her honor.[3][4]

Name

The name Dea Dia means 'Goddess of Daylight' or 'Bright Goddess'.[5][6] The first element stems from the Latin dea ('goddess'), while the second is related to diēs ('day'), probably in reference to the ritual prescription to announce in January the May ceremonies sub divo culmine ('under the celestial vault').[5]

See also

References
  1. Michael Lipka (2009). Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach. BRILL. pp. 64–. ISBN 90-04-17503-2.
  2. Hildegard Temporini (1 December 1985). Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1949–. ISBN 978-3-11-008289-0.
  3. Notes on Strabo's account, 5.3
  4. Angelo Pellegrini (1865). Gli edifici del collegio dei Fratelli Arvali nel lugo della dea dia e i di loro avanzi: opuscolo corredato con pianta delineata dal medesimo. tipografia Chassi. pp. 6–.
  5. Schilling 1992, pp. 113–114.
  6. Jenkyns 2013, p. 96.

Bibliography

Further reading
  • S. R. F. Price. "The Arval Brothers." The Classical Review 42, no. 2 (1992): 341-44. Accessed May 5, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/713240.
  • Brinton, D. G. "The Etrusco-Libyan Elements in the Song of the Arval Brethren." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 30, no. 139 (1892): 317-24. Accessed May 5, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/983355.
  • Kilgour, Andrew. “The Ambarvalia and the Sacrificivm Deae Diae.” Mnemosyne, vol. 6, no. 3, 1938, pp. 225–240. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4426866. Accessed 5 May 2020.
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