Viriplaca

Viriplaca was a Roman goddess mentioned only in Valerius Maximus .

“Whenever a quarrel arose between married couples, they went to the sanctuary of the goddess Viriplaca, which is on the Palatine Hill, and from there returned home reconciled after they had settled their quarrel in mutual discussion. The goddess is said to have got her name from the reconciliation of the husbands. "

While the custom clearly no longer existed at the time of Valerius Maximus, he speaks of the sanctuary of the Viriplaca on the Palatine in the present tense, so it could have existed in his time.

Modern research has counted Viriplaca among the Roman " special gods " and identified her as the protector of marriage with Juno or Venus Verticordia.

literature

Andreas Bendlin : Viriplaca. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , Sp. 245.

Individual evidence

↑ Valerius Maximus 2, 1, 6: Quotiens vero inter virum et uxorem aliquid iurgi intercesserat, in sacellum deae Viriplacae, quod est in Palatio, veniebant et ibi invicem locuti quae voluerant contentione animorum deposita concordes revertebantur. dea nomen hoc a placandis viris fertur adsecuta, veneranda quidem et nescio an praecipuis et exquisitis sacrificiis colenda utpote cotidianae ac domesticae pacis custos, in pari iugo caritatis ipsa sui appellatione virorum maiestati debitum honorem a feminis reddens.

[1] Valerius Maximus 2, 1, 6: Quotiens vero inter virum et uxorem aliquid iurgi intercesserat, in sacellum deae Viriplacae, quod est in Palatio, veniebant et ibi invicem locuti quae voluerant contentione animorum deposita concordes revertebantur. dea nomen hoc a placandis viris fertur adsecuta, veneranda quidem et nescio an praecipuis et exquisitis sacrificiis colenda utpote cotidianae ac domesticae pacis custos, in pari iugo caritatis ipsa sui appellatione virorum maiestati debitum honorem a feminis reddens.