Pomona
Pomona was the Roman goddess of tree fruits. Its name is derived from the Latin word pomum ("tree fruit", "fruit fruit").
A feast of Pomona is not used in the calendars, but there was a Flemish Pomona, the Flemish Pomonalis , one of the twelve flamines minores , says that both age and importance of the cult. The Pomonal , the sanctuary of Pomona, was located between Rome and Ostia in the ager Solonius .
In the myth she was the wife of the god Vertumnus . Ovid's design of the legend as part of his Metamorphoses became a popular subject for numerous painters of the modern age. In this story, after several unsuccessful advances, Vertumnus goes to Pomona in the form of a wrinkled old woman. This deals exclusively with the care of the plants and shows no interest in men who are therefore not allowed to enter your garden. Vertumnus kisses Pomona and then refers to an elm that is entwined with a grape-bearing vine , and says that this tree would stand alone without the vine and that no one would find any reason to seek it if it weren't for the grapes of the vine. Conversely: What would the vine be without the tree that it can cling to and climb up to, which gives it protection and reliable support? Then he accuses her of not following the vine as an example and spurning all applicants, and, full of praise for him, serves her to Vertumnus. He also emphasizes the similar wishes of both. Finally, Vertumnus threatens Pomona with violence if she does not follow his wishes, whereby he changes back into his true form. But the words convinced Pomona.
Another version makes her the wife of Picus : for her sake he rejects the sorceress Kirke and is transformed by her into a woodpecker as a punishment . In the version of the Picus story in Ovid, the nymph Canens is the wife of Picus.
In allegories of the four seasons, Pomona embodies autumn. Her attributes are hip and cornucopia .
The coat of arms of the city of Pomezia in the province of Rome shows the Pomona.
In the city of Langenthal (Switzerland), a bronze figure of Pomona by Emilio Stanziani has stood in front of the theater since 1950.
literature
- Wilhelm Ehlers: Pomona. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXI, 2, Stuttgart 1952, Sp. 1876-1878.
- Tobias Leuker: Pomona. In: Maria Moog-Grünewald (Ed.): Mythenrezeption. The ancient mythology in literature, music and art from the beginnings to the present (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 5). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-02032-1 , pp. 596-599.
- C. Robert Phillips: Pomona. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 87 f.
- Georg Wissowa : Pomona . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 2747-2749 ( digitized version ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sextus Pompeius Festus De verborum significatione 144.12 f. L.
- ↑ Marcus Terentius Varro fr. 181, 189 Cardauns
- ↑ CIL III 12732
- ^ Sextus Pompeius Festus De verborum significatione 296.15-17 L
- ↑ Ovid , Metamorphoses 14.623-771
- ^ Maurus Servius Honoratius Commentarius in Virgilii Aeneida 7,190
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.320-434
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Pomezia , accessed on January 1, 2012 (Italian)
- ↑ http://www.langenthal.ch/de/portrait/geschichte/welcome.php?action=showinfo&info_id=4882