Diis placandis. Les destinataires de la procuratio prodigiorum
When procuring prodigies, the Roman religious authorities, anxious to regain the divine favour, preferred to address all gods, without naming them one by one: such were the lectisternia (six, then twelve gods) or the supplications ad omnia puluinaria. Nevertheless, a...
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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
2008-12-01
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| Series: | Kentron |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/kentron/1675 |
| Summary: | When procuring prodigies, the Roman religious authorities, anxious to regain the divine favour, preferred to address all gods, without naming them one by one: such were the lectisternia (six, then twelve gods) or the supplications ad omnia puluinaria. Nevertheless, a new practise arose through individual supplications addressing particular deities who were called by their own name. By the way, earthquakes can be seen as a particular case, because the name of the deity in honour of whom the expiatory feriae were settled, was not to be mentioned, although Tellus and Ceres were, as exceptions, personally placated. The reason for this was that Tellus and the telluric world remained usually indistinct. Roman people, as cautious as ever, did not want to take the risk of naming a god instead of another one. |
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| ISSN: | 0765-0590 2264-1459 |