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The lectisternium was an ancient Roman propitiatory ceremony, consisting of a meal offered to gods and goddesses. The word derives from lectum sternere , "to spread (or "drape") a couch." [ 1 ] The deities were represented by their busts or statues, or by portable figures of wood, with heads of bronze, wax or marble.
A lectisternium is a banquet for the gods, at which they appear as images seated on couches, as if present and participating. In describing the lectisternium of the Twelve Great gods in 217 BC, the Augustan historian Livy places the deities in gender-balanced pairs: [5] Jupiter–Juno; Neptune–Minerva; Mars–Venus; Apollo–Diana; Vulcan ...
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. [1] He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. [2] In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto, with whom he presides over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. [3]
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13 (Ides): dies natalis of the Temple of Tellus, and associated lectisternium for Ceres; 15: Consualia or Feriae for Consus, the second of the year; 17–23: Saturnalia in honour of Saturn, with the public ritual on the 17th; 18 Eponalia in honor of Epona; 19: Opalia in honor of Ops; 21: Divalia in honor of Angerona; Hercules and Ceres also ...
The fountains in the Piazza del Popolo were the work of Giovanni Ceccarini. The Fontana del Nettuno is located on the west side of the square, and shows Neptune with his Trident, accompanied by two Tritons.
Also at the lectisternium of 218 BC, a supplication was performed at the Temple of Hercules. In Greek myth, the divinized Hercules had Hebe as his wife. The cultivation of both deities at the time of the Second Punic War seems intended to reinvigorate men of fighting age: Juventas "was regarded as a powerful divine force rendering a vital gift ...
Neptune was discovered just after midnight, [1] after less than an hour of searching and less than 1 degree from the position Le Verrier had predicted, a remarkable match. After two further nights of observations in which its position and movement were verified, Galle replied to Le Verrier with astonishment: "the planet whose place you have ...