He had three lives, and had to be slain three times by Evander in consequence. The mythical king Erulus of Praeneste was regarded as her son. The annual festivals served as fairs, such was the crowd of people who flocked to them. She had a very celebrated shrine at the foot of Mount Soracte in Etruria, where the whole neighbourbood used to bring her rich votive offerings and the firstfruits of the field. She was also worshipped as the goddess of emancipation from slavery. The Greeks called her a goddess of flowers on coins she is represented as a girl in the bloom of youth, with flowers in her hair. She seems originally to have been regarded in the same light as Flora, Libera, and Venus. ( See FLORA.)Īn old Italian goddess, of Sabine origin, but also much worshipped in Etruria. She was identified by the Romans with Flora. The personification of the spring season, and goddess of flowers, the wife of Zephyrus, mother of Carpos ("Fruit"). In works of art she was represented as a blooming maiden, decked with flowers. Flora was in later times identified with the Greek Chloris ( See HORAe). The people were regaled during the games with porridge, peas, and lentils. On the last day goats, hares, and other animals were hunted in the circus. For the first five days of the games, for the superintendence of which the curule aediles were responsible, there were theatrical performances, largely consisting of the very indecent farces called mimes. the festival was a standing one, and lasted six days, from April 28, the anniversary of the foundation of the temple, to May 3. The scene was one of unrestrained merriment. At this feast the men decked themselves and their animals with flowers, especially roses the women put aside their usual costume, and wore the gay dresses usually forbidden. ![]() At the same time a theatrical festival, the Floralia, was instituted at the behest of the Sibylline books. A temple was erected to her in the Circus Maximus in 238 B.C. Her worship was said to have been introduced into Rome by the Sabine king Titus Tatius, and her special priest, the Flamen Floralis, to have been appointed by Numa. Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /She was also regarded as a goddess of the flower of youth and its pleasures.
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