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mythology">mythology</a>, <b>Liber</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key"><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size:90%">LY</span>-bər</i></a>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Latin:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="la-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Latin" title="Help:IPA/Latin">[ˈliːbɛr]</a></span>; "the free one"), also known as <b>Liber Pater</b> ("the free Father"), was a god of <a href="/wiki/Viticulture" title="Viticulture">viticulture</a> and wine, male fertility and freedom. He was a patron deity of Rome's <a href="/wiki/Plebeians" title="Plebeians">plebeians</a> and was part of their <a href="/wiki/Aventine_Triad" title="Aventine Triad">Aventine Triad</a>. His festival of <a href="/wiki/Liberalia" title="Liberalia">Liberalia</a> (March 17) became associated with free speech and the rights attached to coming of age. His cult and functions were increasingly associated with Romanised forms of the Greek <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>/Bacchus, whose mythology he came to share.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The name <i>Līber</i> ('free') stems from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Italic_language" title="Proto-Italic language">Proto-Italic</a> <i>*leuþero</i>, and ultimately from <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <i>*h₁leudʰero</i> ('belonging to the people', hence 'free').<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008338_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008338-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_and_establishment">Origins and establishment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins and establishment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before his official adoption as a Roman deity, Liber was companion to two different goddesses in two separate, archaic Italian fertility cults; <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(Roman_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceres (Roman mythology)">Ceres</a>, an agricultural and fertility goddess of Rome's Hellenised neighbours, and <a href="/wiki/Libera_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libera (mythology)">Libera</a>, who was Liber's female equivalent. In ancient <a href="/wiki/Lavinium" title="Lavinium">Lavinium</a>, he was a phallic deity. Latin <i>liber</i> means "free", or "free one"; when coupled with "pater", it means "The Free Father", who personifies freedom and champions its attendant rights, as opposed to dependent servitude. "Liber" is also understood in terms of "libation", the ritual offering of drink, related to Greek "spondé" and English "to spend". Roman writers of the late Republic and early Empire offer various etymological and poetic speculations based on this trope, to explain certain features of Liber's cult.<sup id="cite_ref-google1996_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google1996-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Liber entered Rome's historical tradition soon after the overthrow of the Roman monarchy, the establishment of the Republic and the first of many threatened or actual <a href="/wiki/Secessio_plebis" title="Secessio plebis">plebeian secessions</a> from Rome's patrician authority. According to <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a> <a href="/wiki/Aulus_Postumius_Albus_Regillensis" class="mw-redirect" title="Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis">A. Postumius</a> vowed games <i>(<a href="/wiki/Ludi" title="Ludi">ludi</a>)</i> and a joint public <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">temple</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Aventine_Triad" title="Aventine Triad">Triad of Ceres, Liber and Libera</a> on Rome's <a href="/wiki/Aventine_Hill" title="Aventine Hill">Aventine Hill</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 496 BC</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 493 the vow was fulfilled: the new Aventine temple was dedicated and <i><a href="/wiki/Ludi" title="Ludi">ludi scaenici</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Rome" title="Theatre of ancient Rome">religious dramas</a>) were held in honour of Liber, for the benefit of the <a href="/wiki/SPQR" title="SPQR">Roman people</a>. These early <i>ludi scaenici</i> have been suggested as the earliest of their kind in Rome, and may represent the earliest official festival to Liber, or an early form of his <a href="/wiki/Liberalia" title="Liberalia">Liberalia</a> festival.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated133_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated133-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The formal, official development of the Aventine Triad may have encouraged the assimilation of its individual deities to Greek equivalents: Ceres to <a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a>, Liber to <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> and Libera to <a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a> or Kore.<sup id="cite_ref-google1996_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google1996-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Liber's patronage of Rome's largest, least powerful class of citizens (the <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebs, or plebeian commoners</a>) associates him with particular forms of plebeian disobedience to the civil and religious authority claimed by Rome's Republican <a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">patrician</a> elite. The Aventine Triad has been described as parallel to the <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Triad" title="Capitoline Triad">Capitoline Triad</a> of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quirinus" title="Quirinus">Quirinus</a> on the Capitoline Hill, within the city's sacred boundary (<a href="/wiki/Pomerium" title="Pomerium">pomerium</a>): and as its "copy and antithesis".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Aventine Triad was apparently installed at the behest of the <a href="/wiki/Sibylline_Books" title="Sibylline Books">Sibylline Books</a> but Liber's position within it seems equivocal from the outset. He was a god of the grape and of wine; his early <i>ludi scaenici</i> virtually defined their genre thereafter as satirical, subversive theatre in a lawful religious context. Some aspects of his cults remained potentially <a href="/wiki/Mos_maiorum" title="Mos maiorum">un-Roman</a> and offered a focus for civil disobedience. Liber asserted plebeian rights to ecstatic release, self-expression and free speech; he was <i>Liber Pater</i>, the Free Father – a divine personification of liberty, father of <a href="/wiki/Marsyas#Prophecy_and_free_speech_at_Rome" title="Marsyas">plebeian wisdoms and plebeian augury</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liber,_Bacchus_and_Dionysus"><span id="Liber.2C_Bacchus_and_Dionysus"></span>Liber, Bacchus and Dionysus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Liber, Bacchus and Dionysus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Liber's associations with wine, inebriation, uninhibited freedom and the subversion of the powerful made him a close equivalent to the Greek god <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>, who was Romanised as <a href="/wiki/Bacchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bacchus">Bacchus</a>. In Graeco-Roman culture, Dionysus was <a href="/wiki/Euhemerism" title="Euhemerism">euhemerised</a> as a historical figure, a heroic saviour, world-traveller and founder of cities; and conqueror of India, whence he had returned in the first ever <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">triumph</a>, drawn in a golden chariot by tigers, accompanied by a retinue of drunken <a href="/wiki/Satyrs" class="mw-redirect" title="Satyrs">satyrs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maenad" title="Maenad">maenads</a>. In some cults, and probably in the popular imagination, Liber was gradually assimilated to Bacchus and came to share his Romanised "Dionysian" iconography and myths. Pliny calls him "the first to establish the practice of buying and selling; he also invented the diadem, the emblem of royalty, and the triumphal procession."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Roman mosaics and sarcophagi attest to various representations of this exotic triumphal procession. In Roman and Greek literary sources from the late Republic and Imperial era, several notable triumphs feature similar, distinctively "Bacchic" processional elements, recalling the supposedly historic "Triumph of Liber".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Liber_and_the_Bacchanalia_of_186_BC">Liber and the Bacchanalia of 186 BC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Liber and the Bacchanalia of 186 BC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Very little is known of Liber's official and unofficial cults during the early to middle Republican era. Their Dionysiac or Bacchic elements seem to have been regarded as tolerably ancient, home-grown and manageable by Roman authorities until 186 BC, shortly after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>. Livy, writing 200 years after the event, gives a highly theatrical account of the <a href="/wiki/Bacchanalia" title="Bacchanalia">Bacchanalia</a>'s introduction by a foreign soothsayer, a "Greek of mean condition... a low operator of sacrifices". The cult spreads in secret, "like a plague". The lower classes, plebeians, women, the young, morally weak and effeminate males ("men most like women") are particularly susceptible: all such persons have <i>leuitas animi</i> (fickle or uneducated minds) but even Rome's elite are not immune. The Bacchanalia's priestesses urge their deluded flock to break all social and sexual boundaries, even to visit ritual murder on those who oppose them or betray their secrets: but a loyal servant reveals all to a shocked senate, whose quick thinking, wise actions and piety save Rome from the divine wrath and disaster it would otherwise have suffered.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Livy's <i><a href="/wiki/Dramatis_personae" title="Dramatis personae">dramatis personae</a></i>, stylistic flourishes and tropes probably draw on Roman satyr-plays rather than the Bacchanalia themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Bacchanalia cults may have offered challenge to Rome's <a href="/wiki/Mos_maiorum" title="Mos maiorum">traditional, official values and morality</a> but they were practiced in Roman Italy as Dionysiac cults for several decades before their alleged disclosure, and were probably no more secretive than any other mystery cult. Nevertheless, their presence at the Aventine provoked an investigation. The consequent legislation against them – the <i><a href="/wiki/Senatus_consultum_de_Bacchanalibus" title="Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus">Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus</a></i> of 186 BC – was framed as if in response to a dire and unexpected national and religious emergency, and its execution was unprecedented in thoroughness, breadth and ferocity. Modern scholarship interprets this reaction as the senate's assertion of its own civil and religious authority throughout the Italian peninsula, following the recent <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Punic War</a> and subsequent social and political instability.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cult was officially represented as the workings of a secret, illicit state within the Roman state, a conspiracy of priestesses and misfits, capable of anything. Bacchus himself was not the problem; like any deity, he had a right to cult. Rather than risk his divine offense, the Bacchanalia were not banned outright. They were made to submit to official regulation, under threat of ferocious penalties: some 6,000 persons are thought to have been put to death. The reformed Bacchic cults bore little resemblance to the crowded, ecstatic and uninhibited Bacchanalia: every cult meeting was restricted to five initiates and each could be held only with a praetor's consent. Similar attrition may have been imposed on Liber's cults; attempts to sever him from perceived or actual associations with the Bacchanalia seems clear from the official transference of the Liberalia <i>ludi</i> of 17 March to Ceres' <a href="/wiki/Cerealia" title="Cerealia">Cerealia</a> of 12–19 April. Once the ferocity of official clampdown eased off, the Liberalia games were officially restored, though probably in modified form.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated133_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated133-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Illicit Bacchanals persisted covertly for many years, particularly in Southern Italy, their likely place of origin.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Festivals,_cults_and_priesthoods"><span id="Festivals.2C_cults_and_priesthoods"></span>Festivals, cults and priesthoods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Festivals, cults and priesthoods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Liber was closely, often interchangeably identified with Bacchus, Dionysus and their mythology but was not entirely subsumed by them; in the late Republican era, Cicero could insist on the "non-identity of Liber and Dionysus" and describe Liber and Libera as children of Ceres.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liber, like his Aventine companions, carried elements of his older cults into official Roman religion. He protected various aspects of agriculture and fertility, including the vine and the "soft seed" of its grapes, wine and wine vessels, and male fertility and virility.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As his divine power was incarnate in the vine, grape and wine, he was offered the first, sacred <a href="/wiki/Pressing_(wine)" title="Pressing (wine)">pressing</a> of the grape-<a href="/wiki/Harvest_(wine)" title="Harvest (wine)">harvest</a>, known as <i>sacrima</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The wine produced under Liber's patronage was his gift to humankind, and therefore fit for <a href="/wiki/Profanum" class="mw-redirect" title="Profanum">profane</a> (non-religious) use: it could be mixed with old wine for the purposes of fermentation, and otherwise adulterated and diluted according to taste and circumstance. For religious purposes, it was ritually "impure" (<i>vinum spurcum</i>). Roman religious law required that the libations offered to the gods in their official cults should be <i>vinum inferum</i>, a strong wine of pure vintage, also known as <i>temetum</i>. It was made from the best of the crop, selected and pressed under the patronage of Rome's sovereign deity <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Viniculture_and_wine" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a> and ritually purified by his <i><a href="/wiki/Flamen_Dialis" title="Flamen Dialis">flamen</a></i> (senior priest). Liber's role in viniculture and wine-making was thus both complementary and subservient to Jupiter's.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Liber also personified male procreative power, which was ejaculated as the "soft seed" of human and animal semen. His temples held the <a href="/wiki/Fascinus" title="Fascinus">image of a phallus</a>; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the "dishonourable member" was placed "on a little trolley" and taken in procession around the local <a href="/wiki/Lares#Compitalia" title="Lares">crossroad shrines</a>, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron. The rites ensured the growth of seeds and repelled any malicious enchantment (<i>fascinatus</i>) from fields.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Liber's festivals are timed to the springtime awakening and renewal of fertility in the agricultural cycle. In Rome, his annual <a href="/wiki/Liberalia" title="Liberalia">Liberalia</a> public festival was held on March 17. A portable shrine was carried through Rome's neighbourhoods (<i><a href="/wiki/Vicus" title="Vicus">vici</a></i>); Liber's aged, ivy-crowned priestesses (<a href="/wiki/Sacerdos_Liberi" title="Sacerdos Liberi">Sacerdos Liberi</a>) offered honey cakes for sale, and offered sacrifice on behalf of those who bought them – the discovery of honey was credited to Liber-Bacchus. Embedded within Liberalia, more or less at a ritualistic level, were the various freedoms and rights attached to Roman ideas of virility as a divine and natural force.<sup id="cite_ref-google1996_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google1996-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Young men celebrated their coming of age; they cut off and dedicated their first beards to their household <a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">Lares</a> and if citizens, wore their first <i><a href="/wiki/Toga" title="Toga">toga</a> virilis</i>, the "manly" toga – which <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>, perhaps by way of poetic etymology, calls a <i>toga libera</i> (Liber's toga or "toga of freedom"). These new citizens registered their citizenship at the forum and were then free to vote, to leave their father's <i>domus</i> (household), choose a marriage partner and, thanks to Liber's endowment of virility, father their own children. Ovid also emphasises the less formal freedoms and rights of Liberalia. From his later place of exile, where he was sent for an unnamed offense against Augustus having to do with free speech, Ovid lamented the lost companionship of his fellow poets, who apparently saw the Liberalia as an opportunity for uninhibited talking.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Imperial_era">Imperial era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Imperial era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Augustus successfully courted the plebs, supported their patron deities and began the restoration of the Aventine Triad's temple; it was re-dedicated by his successor, <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liber is found in some of the threefold, complementary deity-groupings of <a href="/wiki/Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial cult (ancient Rome)">Imperial cult</a>; a saviour figure, like <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a> and the Emperor himself.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reign and dynasty of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Septimius_Severus" title="Septimius Severus">Septimius Severus</a> were inaugurated with games to honour Liber/<a href="/wiki/Shadrafa" title="Shadrafa">Shadrafa</a> and Hercules/<a href="/wiki/Melqart" title="Melqart">Melqart</a>, the Romanised founding hero-deities of his native town, <a href="/wiki/Leptis_Magna" title="Leptis Magna">Leptis Magna</a> (North Africa). He built them a massive temple and arch in Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later still, Liber Pater is of one of many deities served by the erudite, deeply religious senator <a href="/wiki/Vettius_Agorius_Praetextatus" title="Vettius Agorius Praetextatus">Vettius Agorius Praetextatus</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> AD 315</span> – 384).<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Bacchic community shrine dedicated to Liber Pater was established in <a href="/wiki/Cosa" title="Cosa">Cosa</a> (in modern Tuscany), probably during the 4th century AD. It remained in use "apparently for decades after the edicts of Theodosius in 391 and 392 AD outlawing paganism". Its abandonment, or perhaps its destruction "by zealous Christians", was so abrupt that much of its cult paraphernalia survived virtually intact beneath the building's later collapse.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around the end of the 5th century, in <a href="/wiki/Orosius" title="Orosius">Orosius</a>'s <i>Seven Books of History Against the Pagans</i>, Liber Pater's mythic conquest of India is taken as an historical event, which left a harmless, naturally peaceful nation "dripping with blood, full of corpses, and polluted with [Liber's] lusts."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Temples_and_cult_images">Temples and cult images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Temples and cult images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pliny the Elder describes the Aventine Triad's temple as designed by Greek architects, and typically Greek in style; no trace remains of it, and the historical and epigraphical record offers only sparse details to suggest its exact location, but Pliny's description may be further evidence of time-honoured and persistent plebeian cultural connections with Magna Graecia, well into the Imperial era. <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> recommends that Liber's <a href="/wiki/Aedes_(Roman)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aedes (Roman)">temples</a> follow an <a href="/wiki/Ionic_order" title="Ionic order">Ionic</a> Greek model, as a "just measure between the severe manner of the <a href="/wiki/Doric_order" title="Doric order">Doric</a> and the tenderness of the Corinthian," respectful of the deity's part-feminine characteristics.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_literature">In literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: In literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gods named Liber and Libera play a major role in the <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>/<a href="/w/index.php?title=Time-travel_novel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Time-travel novel (page does not exist)">time-travel novel</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Household_Gods_(novel)" title="Household Gods (novel)">Household Gods</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" title="Harry Turtledove">Harry Turtledove</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judith_Tarr" title="Judith Tarr">Judith Tarr</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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.citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-20102-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-631-20102-1">978-0-631-20102-1</a>.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iOx6de8LUNAC&pg=PA259">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008338-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEde_Vaan2008338_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFde_Vaan2008">de Vaan 2008</a>, p. 338.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-google1996-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-google1996_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-google1996_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-google1996_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Barbette_Spaeth" title="Barbette Spaeth">Barbette Stanley Spaeth</a>, <i>The Roman goddess Ceres</i>, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=lavinium&pg=PA142">8</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=Liber%20Cicero&pg=PA44">44.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">C.M.C. Green, "Varro's Three Theologies and their influence on the Fasti", in Geraldine Herbert-Brown, (ed)., <i>Ovid's Fasti: historical readings at its bimillennium</i>, Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 78-80.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CeFErNPdXOMC&dq=Ovid's%20Fasti%3A%20historical%20readings%20at%20its%20bimillennium%20%20By%20Geraldine%20Herbert-Brown&pg=PA78">[2]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The vow was made in hope of victory against the Latins, the relief of a famine in Rome and the co-operation of Rome's plebeian soldiery in the coming war despite the threat of their secession.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-autogenerated133-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated133_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated133_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/T.P._Wiseman" class="mw-redirect" title="T.P. Wiseman">T.P. Wiseman</a>, <i>Remus: a Roman myth</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.133.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T.P. Wiseman, <i>Remus: a Roman myth</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.133 and note 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barbette Stanley Spaeth, <i>The Roman goddess Ceres</i>, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp. 6-8, 92, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=lavinium&pg=PA92">[3]</a>. Spaeth cites Henri Le Bonniec, <i>Le culte de Cérès à Rome. Des origines à la fin de la République,</i> Paris, Librairie C. Klincksieck, 1958, for the Aventine cult with its central female deity as "copy and antithesis" of the early, entirely male Capitoline Triad. When Mars and Quirinus were later replaced by two goddesses, Jupiter remained the primary focus of Capitoline cult.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barbette Stanley Spaeth, <i>The Roman goddess Ceres</i>, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp. 6-8, 92, <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=lavinium&pg=PA92">[4]</a> While the Aventine temple and ludi may represent a patrician attempt to reconcile or at least molify the plebs, plebeian opposition to patrician domination continued throughout contemporary and later Republican history.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Pliny, <i>Historia Naturalis</i>, 7.57 (ed. Bostock) at Perseus: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137&layout=&loc=7.57">Tufts.edu</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)" title="Mary Beard (classicist)">Beard, Mary</a>: <i>The Roman Triumph</i>, The Belknap Press of <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University_Press" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England, 2007, pp. 315 - 7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sarolta Takacs, <i>Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion</i>, University of Texas Press, 2008, p.95. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SnUCcOvhVKwC&dq=Takacs+Livy+%22men+most+like+women%22&pg=PA95">[5]</a> See also Beard, M., Price, S., North, J., <i>Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History</i>, illustrated, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 93 - 96, and Walsh, PG, <i>Making a drama out of a Crisis: Livy on the Bacchanalia</i>, Greece & Rome, Vol XLIII, No. 2, October 1996.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The plots of Satyr plays would have been familiar to Roman audiences from around the 3rd century BC onwards. See Robert Rouselle, Liber-Dionysus in Early Roman Drama, <i>The Classical Journal</i>, 82, 3 (1987), p. 191.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.jstor.org/pss/3297899">[6]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">During the Punic crisis, some foreign cults and oracles had been repressed, on much smaller scale and not outside Rome itself. See Erich S. Gruen, <i>Studies in Greek culture and Roman policy</i>, BRILL, 1990, pp.34-78: on precedents see p.41 ff.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dnOPjX6GOrgC&dq=Gruen%201990%20Bacchus&pg=PA34">[7]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Sarolta A. Takács, Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 B.C.E., <i>Harvard Studies in Classical Philology,</i> Vol. 100, (2000), p.301. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.jstor.org/pss/3185221">[8]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard, M., Price, S., North, J., <i>Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History</i>, illustrated, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 93 - 96.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Barbette Stanley Spaeth, <i>The Roman goddess Ceres</i>, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=lavinium&pg=PA142">8</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=Liber%20Cicero&pg=PA44">44.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T.P. Wiseman, <i>Remus: a Roman myth</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.133 and note 20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cicero, <i>De Natura Deorum</i>, 2.62. See also St Augustine, <i>De Civitatis Dei</i>, 4.11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Libera protected female fertility.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Spaeth find a parallel in the offer of first harvest grains to Ceres. See Barbette Stanley Spaeth, <i>The Roman goddess Ceres</i>, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp.41, 43. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5g3YDlPvbeMC&q=lavinium&pg=PA41">[9]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Olivier de Cazanove, "Jupiter, Liber et le vin latin", <i>Revue de l'histoire des religions</i>, 1988, Vol. 205, Issue 205-3, pp. 245-265 <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rhr_0035-1423_1988_num_205_3_1888">[10]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">St Augustine, (trans. R. W. Dyson) <i>The City of God against the pagans</i>, 7.21., in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, 1998, pp. 292-3. St Augustine (AD 354 – 430) uses Varro (116 – 27 BC) as source.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ReU2M8cLtGcC&q=Liber&pg=PA292">[11]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See John F. Miller, "Ovid's Liberalia", in Geraldine Herbert-Brown,(ed)., <i>Ovid's Fasti: historical readings at its bimillennium</i>, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 199-224. Briefer scholarly treatment of the Festival is offered in William Warde Fowler, <i>The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic</i>, Gorgias Press, 2004 (reprint of Macmillan and Co., London, 1908), pp.54 - 56.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_2w01mQEOBAC&dq=Warde%20Fowler%20Ovid%20Liberalia&pg=PA54">[12]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tacitus, Annals, 2.49; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 6.17.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard <i>et al</i>., Vol. 1, 134 - 5, 64 - 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bowman, A., Cameron, A., Garnsey, P., (Eds) The Crisis of Empire, AD 193-337, The Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edition, Volume 12, 2005, p.563.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MNSyT_PuYVMC&dq=Liber+Pater+Shadrapa&pg=PA563">[13]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">J. F. Matthews, Symmachus and the Oriental Cults, <i>The Journal of Roman Studies</i>, Vol. 63 (1973), p. 179. Praetextatus' erudition and religiosity are attested by his widow, herself a priestess. Praetextatus was also an <a href="/wiki/Augur" title="Augur">augur</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Quindecimviri_sacris_faciundis" title="Quindecimviri sacris faciundis">quindecimvir</a></i> and public priest of <a href="/wiki/Vesta_(mythology)" title="Vesta (mythology)">Vesta</a> and Sol, an initiate of the <a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusinian mysteries">Eleusinian mysteries</a>, and priest of <a href="/wiki/Hecate" title="Hecate">Hecate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sarapis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarapis">Sarapis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Mithras" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithras">Mithras</a>, all apparently clustered on a solar theology analogous to that of the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Julian_the_Apostate" class="mw-redirect" title="Julian the Apostate">Julian</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jaquelyn Collins-Clinton, A late antique shrine of Liber Pater at Cosa, <i>Etudes Preliminaires aux Religions Orientales dans l'Empire Romain, Volume 64,</i> BRILL, 1977, pp.3, 5. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CsoUAAAAIAAJ&q=paraphernalia&pg=PA3">[14]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Paulus Orosius: Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, trans. and ed. A T Fear, Liverpool University Press, 2010, p. 57, and editor's footnote 179, concerning Orosius' use of "Pater" to emphasise "the cruelty of this pagan father as opposed to the mercy of the Christian God the Father."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Joseph Rykwert, <i>The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture</i>, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1996, p.237.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3IKoh75RI38C&dq=Vitruvius++Ionic+Liber&pg=PA237">[15]</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Liber&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFde_Vaan2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Michiel_de_Vaan" title="Michiel de Vaan">de Vaan, Michiel</a> (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ecZ1DwAAQBAJ"><i>Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages</i></a>. 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href="/wiki/Annona_(mythology)" title="Annona (mythology)">Annona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Averruncus" title="Averruncus">Averruncus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caelus" title="Caelus">Caelus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Concordia_(mythology)" title="Concordia (mythology)">Concordia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feronia_(mythology)" title="Feronia (mythology)">Feronia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fides_(deity)" title="Fides (deity)">Fides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortuna" title="Fortuna">Fortuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fontus" title="Fontus">Fontus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laverna" title="Laverna">Laverna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pax_(goddess)" title="Pax (goddess)">Pax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietas" title="Pietas">Pietas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roma_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roma (mythology)">Roma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salus" title="Salus">Salus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Securitas" title="Securitas">Securitas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spes" title="Spes">Spes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tranquillitas" title="Tranquillitas">Tranquillitas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terra_(mythology)" title="Terra (mythology)">Terra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_(mythology)" title="Victoria (mythology)">Victoria</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="10" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Lupa_Capitolina,_Rome.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/100px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/150px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/200px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7489" 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title="Virgil">Virgil</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fasti_(poem)" title="Fasti (poem)">Fasti</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Metamorphoses" title="Metamorphoses">Metamorphoses</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Varro</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Antiquitates_rerum_humanarum_et_divinarum" title="Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum">Res divinae</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibylline_Books" title="Sibylline Books">Sibylline Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #F0ACAC;;width:1%">Concepts<br />and 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