Pudicitia
Pudicitia ( Latin ), the modesty ; depicted as a personification on Roman coins as a matrona demurely wrapped in her robe or as a woman who is about to veil herself. Her statue was only allowed to be touched by a univira , a woman who was only married once.
In Rome there was a temple of Pudicitia patricia and another of Pudicitia plebeia . According to Livy , the cult of the latter was founded when there was a dispute before the Senate about whether a woman from a patrician family married to a plebeian should continue to participate in the cult.
literature
- Rudolf Peter: Pudicitia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 3273-3277 ( digitized version ).
- Gerhard Radke: Pudicitia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXIII, 2, Stuttgart 1959, Sp. 1942-1945.
- Rainer Vollkommer: Pudicitia . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume VII, Zurich / Munich 1994, pp. 589-592.
- David Wardle: Pudicitia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 585.
Web links
Commons : Pudicitia - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Celia E. Schultz: Sanctissima femina. Social categorization and women's religious experience in the Roman Republic. In: Maryline Parca, Angeliki Tzanetou (ed.): Finding Persephone. Women's rituals in the ancient Mediterranean. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 2007, ISBN 978-0-253-34954-5 , ISBN 978-0-253-21938-1 , pp. 92-113; P. 108 note 8.
- ↑ Livy Ab urbe condita 10, 23, 1-10.