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Feronia (mythology)

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In ancient Roman religion, Feronia was a goddess associated with wildlife, fertility, health, and abundance. [1]

65 relations: Aeneas, Aeneid, Angerona, Aniene, Aquileia, Asteroid, Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustus, Campus Martius, Capena, Charles Godfrey Leland, Colonia (Roman), Cult (religious practice), Epigraphy, Erulus, Ethnic groups in Europe, Etruria, Evander of Pallene, Farfa Abbey, Feralia, Feronia (Etruria), Fiano Romano, Freedman, Georges Dumézil, Geryon, Hannibal, Harvest festival, Horace, Indo-European languages, Karl Otfried Müller, Largo di Torre Argentina, Latin, Latium, Libertas, Lily Ross Taylor, Livy, Lucus Feroniae, Ludi, Ludi Plebeii, Lympha, Manius Curius Dentatus, Marcus Terentius Varro, Maurus Servius Honoratus, Moneyer, Monte Soratte, Nazzano, Palestrina, Pileus (hat), Plebs, Religion in ancient Rome, ..., Roman aqueduct, Roman calendar, Rudra, Sabina (region), Sabines, Strabo, Terracina, Turnus, Tuscany, Tutelary deity, Vedas, Via Salaria, Virgil, William Warde Fowler, 72 Feronia. Expand index (15 more) »

Aeneas

In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas (Greek: Αἰνείας, Aineías, possibly derived from Greek αἰνή meaning "praised") was a Trojan hero, the son of the prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite (Venus).

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Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aeneis) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Angerona

In Roman religion, Angerona or Angeronia was an old Roman goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained.

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Aniene

The Aniene (Anio), formerly known as the Teverone, is a river in Lazio, Italy.

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Aquileia

Aquileia (Acuilee/Aquilee/Aquilea;bilingual name of Aquileja - Oglej in: Venetian: Aquiłeja/Aquiłegia; Aglar/Agley/Aquileja; Oglej) is an ancient Roman city in Italy, at the head of the Adriatic at the edge of the lagoons, about from the sea, on the river Natiso (modern Natisone), the course of which has changed somewhat since Roman times.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Augustan literature (ancient Rome)

Augustan literature is the period of Latin literature written during the reign of Augustus (27 BC–AD 14), the first Roman emperor.

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Augustus

Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.

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Campus Martius

The Campus Martius (Latin for the "Field of Mars", Italian Campo Marzio), was a publicly owned area of ancient Rome about in extent.

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Capena

Capena (until 1933 called Leprignano) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio region (central Italy).

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Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist, writer, and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Colonia (Roman)

A Roman colonia (plural coloniae) was originally a Roman outpost established in conquered territory to secure it.

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Cult (religious practice)

Cult is literally the "care" (Latin cultus) owed to deities and to temples, shrines, or churches.

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Epigraphy

Epigraphy (ἐπιγραφή, "inscription") is the study of inscriptions or epigraphs as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.

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Erulus

In Vergil's Aeneid, Erulus is a king of Praeneste.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

The Indigenous peoples of Europe are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of Europe.

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Etruria

Etruria (usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia Τυρρηνία) was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what are now Tuscany, Lazio, and Umbria.

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Evander of Pallene

In Roman mythology, Evander (from Greek Εὔανδρος Euandros, "good man" or "strong man": an etymology used by poets to emphasize the hero's virtue) was a culture hero from Arcadia, Greece, who brought the Greek pantheon, laws, and alphabet to Italy, where he founded the city of Pallantium on the future site of Rome, sixty years before the Trojan War.

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Farfa Abbey

Farfa Abbey (Abbazia di Farfa) is a territorial abbey in northern Lazio, central Italy.

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Feralia

Ferālia was an ancient Roman public festivalDumézil, Georges.

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Feronia (Etruria)

Feronia or Lucus Feroniae (Φερωνία, Strabo; Λοῦκος Φηρωνίας, Ptolemy) was an ancient town of southern Etruria, at the foot of Mount Soracte, within the territory of Capena, with a celebrated temple or shrine of the goddess from whom it derived its name, and a sacred grove, attached to it.

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Fiano Romano

Fiano Romano is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Italy, approximately north of that city.

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Freedman

A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.

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Georges Dumézil

Georges Dumézil (4 March 1898 – 11 October 1986, Paris) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society.

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Geryon

In Greek mythology, Geryon (or;. Collins English Dictionary also Geryone; Γηρυών,Also Γηρυόνης (Gēryonēs) and Γηρυονεύς (Gēryoneus). genitive: Γηρυόνος), son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe, the grandson of Medusa and the nephew of Pegasus, was a fearsome giant who dwelt on the island Erytheia of the mythic Hesperides in the far west of the Mediterranean.

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Hannibal

Hannibal Barca (𐤇𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋 𐤁𐤓𐤒 ḥnb‘l brq; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history.

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Harvest festival

A harvest festival is an annual celebration that occurs around the time of the main harvest of a given region.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family of several hundred related languages and dialects.

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Karl Otfried Müller

Karl Otfried Müller (28 August 1797 – 1 August 1840) was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology.

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Largo di Torre Argentina

Largo di Torre Argentina is a square in Rome, Italy, with four Roman Republican temples and the remains of Pompey's Theatre.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latium

Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

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Libertas

Libertas (Latin for Liberty) is the Roman goddess and embodiment of liberty.

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Lily Ross Taylor

Lily Ross Taylor (born August 12, 1886, in Auburn, Alabama - died November 18, 1969, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) was an American academic and author, who in 1917 became the first female Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

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Livy

Titus Livius Patavinus (64 or 59 BCAD 12 or 17) – often rendered as Titus Livy, or simply Livy, in English language sources – was a Roman historian.

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Lucus Feroniae

Lucus Feroniae was an ancient sacred grove ("lucus") dedicated to the Sabine goddess Feronia.

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Ludi

Ludi (Latin plural) were public games held for the benefit and entertainment of the Roman people (''populus Romanus'').

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Ludi Plebeii

The Plebeian Games (Latin Ludi Plebeii) were an ancient Roman religious festival held November 4–17.

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Lympha

The Lympha (plural Lymphae) is an ancient Roman deity of fresh water.

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Manius Curius Dentatus

Manius Curius Dentatus (died 270 BC), son of Manius, was a three-time consul and a plebeian hero of the Roman Republic, noted for ending the Samnite War.

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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC – 27 BC) was an ancient Roman scholar and writer.

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Maurus Servius Honoratus

Maurus Servius Honoratus was a late fourth-century and early fifth-century grammarian, with the contemporary reputation of being the most learned man of his generation in Italy; he was the author of a set of commentaries on the works of Virgil.

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Moneyer

A moneyer is a private individual who is officially permitted to mint money.

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Monte Soratte

Monte Soratte (ancient: Soracte) is a mountain ridge in the province of Rome, Italy.

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Nazzano

Nazzano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region Lazio, located about north of Rome.

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Palestrina

Palestrina (ancient Praeneste; Πραίνεστος, Prainestos) is an ancient city and comune (municipality) with a population of about 21,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome.

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Pileus (hat)

The pileus (– pilos, also pilleus or pilleum in Latin) was a brimless, felt cap worn in Ancient Greece and surrounding regions, later also introduced in Ancient Rome.

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Plebs

The plebs were, in ancient Rome, the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census.

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Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in Ancient Rome includes the ancestral ethnic religion of the city of Rome that the Romans used to define themselves as a people, as well as the religious practices of peoples brought under Roman rule, in so far as they became widely followed in Rome and Italy.

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Roman aqueduct

The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns.

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Roman calendar

The Roman calendar was the calendar used by the Roman kingdom and republic.

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Rudra

(Sanskrit: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic deity, associated with wind or storm and the hunt.

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Sabina (region)

Sabina (Latin: Sabinium), also called the Sabine Hills, is a region in central Italy.

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Sabines

The Sabines (Sabini; Σαβῖνοι Sabĩnoi; Sabini, all exonyms) were an Italic tribe which lived in the central Apennines of ancient Italy, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome.

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Strabo

Strabo (Στράβων Strábōn; 64 or 63 BC AD 24) was a Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian who lived in Asia Minor during the transitional period of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.

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Terracina

Terracina is a city and comune of the province of Latina - (until 1934 of the province of Rome), Italy, southeast of Rome by rail and by the Via Appia by car.

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Turnus

In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas.

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Tuscany

Tuscany (Toscana) is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013).

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Tutelary deity

A tutelary (also tutelar) is a deity or spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद, "knowledge") are a large body of knowledge texts originating in the ancient Indian subcontinent.

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Via Salaria

The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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William Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler (16 May 1847 – 15 June 1921) was an English historian and ornithologist, and tutor at Lincoln College, Oxford.

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72 Feronia

72 Feronia is a quite large and dark main belt asteroid.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feronia_(mythology)

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