Vinalia
The Vinalia were two ancient Roman wine festivals that were dedicated to Jupiter . At the Vinalia Priora ("first wine festival"), which was celebrated on April 23, a libation of the new wine was offered . The second festival, the Vinalia Rustica ("rural wine festival") or Vinalia altera ("second wine festival") ; only with Pliny ), took place on August 19th. Varro claims that the festival is dedicated to Venus , but only deduces this from the fact that the foundation festival of the oldest Roman temple of Venus also fell on August 19th. August 19th was the consecration day ( Natalis templi ) of the Temple of Venus at the Circus Maximus and the sanctuary in luco Libitinae .
The third Roman wine festival, the Meditrinalia , was probably also dedicated to Jupiter.
literature
- Franz Bömer : Iuppiter and the Roman wine festivals. In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 90 (1941), pp. 30–58 PDF
- Werner Eisenhut : Vinalia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary volume X, Stuttgart 1965, Sp. 1172-1176.
- C. Robert Phillips: Vinalia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , column 225 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pliny the Elder Naturalis historia 18.287. Ovid Fasti 4,863 f. Plutarch Roman Questions 45
- ↑ Pliny Naturalis historia 18,284
- ↑ Varro Res rusticae 1,1,6.