Naslov
Venus et Cybele - Matres Romanorum

Autori
Vilogorac Brčić, Inga

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Stoljeće hrabrih: rimsko osvajanje i otpor starosjedilaca u Iliriku za vrijeme Augusta i njegovih nasljednika

Urednik/ci
Milićević Bradač, Marina, Demicheli, Dino

Izdavač
Odsjek za arheologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2018

Raspon stranica
385-396

ISBN
978-953-175-609-9

Ključne riječi
Venus, Mater Magna Cybele, Imperial cult, Dalmatia, Salona, Burnum, Diocletian’s Palace

Sažetak
Roman literary sources confirm that Venus and Cybele were worshipped as Roman national goddesses since the 1st century BC. Venus was considered the mother of Aeneas who, according to legend, arrived in Italy with the survivors of Troy and founded a new city there. The Phrygian goddess Cybele was also traditionally linked to Aeneas: she blessed him when he set off for Italy and helped him arrive there safely. Her cult was transferred from Pergamon to Rome in 204 BC to protect the Roman nation in the Second Punic War, as the Sibylline oracle advised. Cybele was named the Great Mother of the Gods (Mater Deorum Magna). Venus and Cybele, the patronesses of the nation, enjoyed the special favour of Roman emperors, who promoted and financed their cults. The relationship between the Imperial cult and those of Venus and Cybele is demonstrated by material and epigraphic evidence. It can also be traced in the Roman province of Dalmatia. Architectural remains and sculptural monuments from Burnum (second or first half of the 3rd century AD) and Diocletian’s Palace in Split (4th century AD) are deemed potential evidence of this relationship. However, it is the author’s conviction that it has only been demonstrated with certainty in Salona, within the cognationes – religious communities that worshipped both goddesses there in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti, Arheologija

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