Fecunditas
Fecunditas (or Fecunditas Augusta ) is the Roman personification of fertility, especially of the empresses.
The Fecunditas was praised a temple in Rome by decision of the Senate in AD 63 after Poppaea Sabina gave birth to Emperor Nero .
Fecundidas is depicted on coins from Antoninus Pius to Claudius Gothicus , usually with a scepter in hand and a toddler.
literature
- R. Peter: Fecunditas . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 1471 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Georg Wissowa : Fecunditas. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Sp. 2098.
- A. Comotti: Fecundidas. In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale Vol. 3, Rome 1966, pp. 611-612 ( full text ).
- Thomas Ganschow: Fecunditas . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VIII, Zurich / Munich 1997, pp. 583-585.
- Brigitte Schaffner: Fecunditas. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 455.
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