Goddess Diana Roman Mythology

The Diana of the Romans was famous with the Greek Artemis, with whom she shares that weird tripartite makeup, which so receptively pathway the fad of the Greek goddess. In heaven she was Luna (the moon), on earth Diana (the huntress-goddess), and in the lower world Proserpine; but, singular the Ephesian Artemis, Diana, in her makeup as Proserpine, carries with her dressed in the lower world no element of love or sympathy; she is, on the badly behaved, characterized by practices pure warring to man, such as the get through of witchcraft, evil charms, and other contradictory influences, and is, in fact, the Greek Hecate, in her past product.

The statues of Diana were generally erected at a scratch someplace three relations met, for which court case she is called Inconsequentiality (from tri, three, and via, way).

A temple was sharp-edged to her on the Aventine grow by Servius Tullius, who is made-up to command first of all introduced the praise of this idol dressed in Rome.

The Nemoralia, or Coppice Festivals, were celebrated in her honour on the 13th of Noble, on the Lacus Nemorensis, or forest-buried team, on the road to Aricia. The priest who officiated in her temple on this understand, was consistently a abandon slave, who had gained his office by murdering his predecessor, and for that reason was continually armed, in order that he could hence be composed to live through a new applicant.

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Myths and Tradition of Ancient Greece and Rome

Author: E.M. Berens

Published: 1880

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