Bonus Eventus
Bonus Eventus ( Latin "happy outcome", "happy prosperity") was an originally rural god of the Roman religion , who probably corresponded to the Greek Triptolemos or the Greek Agathos Daimon and how he was represented. A temple of the deity that can no longer be classified from the time it was built was located on Campus Martius in Rome near the Agrippa Baths. Bonus Eventus was also venerated in Roman provinces, such as Mogontiacum , today's Mainz . The Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro names him as one of the twelve gods for the field of agriculture. In addition to its main task of guaranteeing successful growth in agriculture, Bonus Eventus became more and more a general symbol of success in the imperial era .
Frequent depictions of the deity can be found on coins with flowers, ears of corn, grapes in hand, in front of an altar on which a sacrificial fire is burning, or as a beautiful, naked youth on a winged dragon carriage, in the right a sacrificial bowl, in the left corn ears and a Cornucopia. A statue allegedly made by the famous sculptor Praxiteles , originally depicting a Greek deity, which was later renamed Bonus Eventus, was located on the Capitol together with a statue of Bona Fortuna .
literature
- René Bloch: Bonus Eventus. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b See: Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 3. Altenburg 1857, p. 79.
- ↑ See: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, pp. 209–210.
- ↑ Ammianus Marcellinus 29, 6, 19 .
- ↑ AE 1923, 36 .
- ↑ Varro, De re rustica 1, 1, 6.
- ↑ See: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, 5th edition , volume 1. Leipzig 1911, p. 240.
- ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 36, 23.