Iuturna
Iuturna (older form Diuturna , German also "Juturna") is a Latin spring nymph and Roman goddess. She was the daughter of Daunus and sister of the king of the Rutuls , who was killed by Aeneas , Turnus . With Arnobius she is the daughter of the water deity Volturnus , wife of Ianus and mother of Fontus .
Because her Jupiter was particularly well disposed, she was chosen to be the goddess of springs, ponds and rivers. Their consecrated waters are said to have had medicinal properties.
Venerated in Latium, especially at Lavinium , her cult was transferred to Rome and a spring sacred to her was set up at the lacus Iuturnae . Gaius Lutatius Catulus vowed after the end of the First Punic War in 241 BC. BC, the Iuturna, to celebrate his victory, founded a temple and built it on the Field of Mars . Probably after the renovation of this temple under Augustus , the Iuturnalia were celebrated as the foundation festival of the temple on January 11th.
literature
- Kurt Latte : Iuturna. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1348 f.
- Attilio Mastrocinque: Iuturna. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 6, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01476-2 , column 109 f.
- Georg Wissowa : Iuturna . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 762-764 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Varro , Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum 14 in Servius , Commentary of the Aeneis 12, 139.
- ↑ Virgil , Aeneis 12, 134 ff. 222 ff. 446 ff. 843 ff.
- ↑ Arnobius, Disputationum adversus gentes 3, 29.
- ^ Ovid , Fasti 2, 583 ff.
- ↑ Varro, De origine linguae Latinae 5, 71.
- ^ Servius, Commentary on the Aeneid 12, 139.
- ^ Servius, Commentary on the Aeneis 12, 139; Ovid, Fasti 1, 463 f.
- ↑ Ovid, Fasti 1, 463 f.