Libera
Libera is a goddess of Roman mythology . She was the female counterpart of Liber , the god of fertility and wine. Together with Ceres and Liber it formed the Aventine Triassic . Matched by the Eleusinian triad was Persephone , daughter of Demeter . At Ovid she is identified with Ariadne , the wife of Dionysus .
Her sanctuary was in the form of its own cella in the Temple of Ceres on the Aventine in Rome. She had her annual festival together with Liber, the Liberalia , which takes place on March 17th . There is hardly any evidence of a cult outside of Rome, except in the provinces of Dacia , Dalmatia and Pannonia , where Liber and Libera presumably came as the Interpretatio Romana of a local pair of gods, and numerous dedicatory inscriptions were found.
literature
- Francesca Prescendi: Libera. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 7, Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01477-0 , column 140.
- Georg Wissowa : Libera . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 2029 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augustine De civitate dei 6.9
- ↑ Ovid Fasti 3,512
- ↑ Fasti Caeretani , CIL I 1, 212