CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Veii, Tanit, Aventine Triad
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Not only romans moved from place to place, but also gods and goddesses. There were mobile deities, and rome was populated by many different people with different religious beliefs, making it the sacred capital of the world. Phyrgian goddess cybele, known in rome as magna mater (the great. Mother: she was imported into rome in 204 bc after consulting the sibylline. There was always an image of mithra defeating the bull. Augustus period: there were multiple temples in rome dedicated to isis, she was also a goddess of maternity, so in the egyptian world there are several representations of her with her son horus. Romans used to assimilate gods to one another such as juno to the. Everything in rome was related to religious matters. Under the period of augustus a sundial was erected, now it is beside the parliament house in rome (was moved there)