The lectisternium was an ancient Roman propitiatory ceremony, consisting of a meal offered to gods and goddesses. The word derives from lectum sternere...

are assumed to be the deities of the lectisternium. A fragment from Ennius, within whose lifetime the lectisternium occurred, lists the same twelve deities...

Punic War, Juventas was included in sacrifices in 218 BC relating to a lectisternium, a public banquet at which divine images were displayed as if the deities...

of the lectisternium ceremony. (Livy 5, 13) 348 BC: A plague struck Rome after a brief skirmish with the Gauls and Greeks. Another lectisternium was ordered...

might receive offerings at ceremonies such as the lectisternium or supplicatio. In the famous lectisternium of 217 BC, on orders of the Sibylline books, six...

panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium. The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a...

Greek pantheon whose theology was later tied to a Roman deity. The lectisternium of 399 BC indicated that the Greek figures of Poseidon, Artemis, and...

November. In the 3rd century BC, the epulum Iovis became similar to a lectisternium. The most ancient Roman games followed after one day (considered a dies...

the anniversary of the Temple of Tellus was celebrated along with a lectisternium (banquet) for Ceres, who embodied "growing power" and the productivity...

example is seen in the Tomb of the Funereal Bed at Tarquinia where a lectisternium is painted for them. Another is symbolised in a painting depicted as...

appearance of Diana beside Apollo [the brother of Artemis] in the first lectisternium at Rome" in 399 BCE. The process of identification between the two goddesses...

the ritual, and acted as "gastronomic proxies" in eating the food. Lectisternium Sellisternium Religion in ancient Rome Glossary of ancient Roman religion...

of a female presence in her cult through the centuries down to the lectisternium of 217 BC, when the matronae collected money for the service, and to...

ordinem) would evoke for the Roman audience the religious ceremony of the lectisternium, a public banquet held for the major deities in the form of statues...

217 BCE Venus and Mars were presented as a complementary pair in the lectisternium, a public banquet at which images of twelve major gods of the Roman...

Cults of the Greek States, p. 281. Long, The Twelve Gods, p. 179. See lectisternium for the "strewing of couches" in ancient Rome. Two inscriptions from...

principal deities (Di Consentes) corresponding to those honoured at the lectisternium of 217 BC, represented on a 1st-century altar from Gabii that is rimmed...

Decembrīs NP • dies natalis of the Temple of Tellus, and associated lectisternium for Ceres 14 XIX Kal. Ian. F 15 XVIII Kal. Ian. NP • CONSVALIA or Feriae...

Aventine 13 (Ides): dies natalis of the Temple of Tellus, and associated lectisternium for Ceres 15: Consualia or Feriae for Consus, the second of the year...

what was normal. Following the sacrifice the Roman Senate arranged a lectisternium, a ritual of Greek origin that typically involved placing a deity's...

first mention of a ritual connection between Vulcan and Vesta is the lectisternium of 217 BC. Other facts that seem to hint at this connection are the...

Greek, or with clearly Greek counterparts. In the traditional Roman lectisternium, the images of attending deities, usually male, reclined on couches...

Roman citizens began including theatrical games as a supplement to the Lectisternium ceremonies already being performed, in a stronger effort to pacify the...

sweet wine. Hercules was among the divinities honored at the first lectisternium held at Rome in 399 BC. Heracles or Hercules was a figure especially...

Son/Fundamental 1987 Live at the Melkweg 25.9.87 (cassette only) Staalplaat 1988 Lectisternium June 27, 1988 (cassette only) Savage Republic Tapes 1990 ΝΗΠΙΑΓΩΓΕΙΟΝ:...

Apollo. This blasphemy may have been on Marcus' mind when he called a lectisternium, a great meal offered to the gods, at the beginning of the Marcomannic...

ritualized "theoxenia"), including the annual Epulum Jovis, and the lectisternium, originally a rare event in times of crisis, first held in 399 BCE according...

Ahala 27 32 25 2 or 3 Diodorus xii. 9 § 3 First celebration of the lectisternium in 399 28 36 26 2 or 3 Livy ix. 44 § 2–4 Name of the consuls in 308...