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This paper is aimed to analyze several different aspects of the cult of Hera in Magna Graecia – from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period – where the goddess was already worshipped since the foundation of most ancient colonies in southern Italy. By examination both of the ancient Greek sources and the archaeological evidences, we tried to outline the features and the duties of the goddess over time, also comparing all the detected data with the Greek world. The result will perhaps help in defining them better than has been done hitherto.
, male and female patients with obesity (body mass index, BMI ≥30 kg m −2 ) aged 18–65 years were consecutively recruited during their first visit to the Outpatient Unit for Clinical Research and Treatment of Eating Disorders of the University “Magna
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This chapter aims to reconsider an inscription from Consilinum (3rd century CE), in which we find the problematic mention of a mundus Attinis. This inscription has been almost neglected by scholars: it has been analyzed in a systematic way only in an article in Latin language back in 1978. It is not easy to explain what mundus exactly represented to the ancient Romans, but we can assert for sure that it was a holy place in connection with the worship of the gods of the underworld. The connection between Cybele, Attis, and the underworld is well known, but this is the only mention we have of a mundus Attinis i.e. Attidis. It might be connected to the (mystic?) rites in honor of the dead Attis, symbolized by a pine, who, during the Hilaria, was carried in an underground chamber for lamentations, before his new life. In my opinion, we might also think of the mundus as a sort of reversed womb, related to the figure of the Magna Mater, in which birth and death come together and overlap.
Was Kore/Persephone's journey to the afterworld as a path to infertility?
Some evidence from modern southern Calabria
to be Hades, who has always been destined for the kingdom of the dead. Nevertheless, there are many pinakes from Magna Graecia in which a recumbent man is represented with a woman and a child found in both votive and funerary contexts: 10 they are
adopted by the Romans at the time of their first contact with the Hellenophone populations settled in Magna Graecia. 18 Whereas the value of upsilon in the Greek koine became [ü], 19 V-spellings were probably retained in Latin as conservative variants
Linear B inscriptions. In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a chief deity at Pylos and Thebes. In Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis. 8 Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after
Going through a lake of Darkness
The Nemi crater as a gateway to the Roman Underworld
compared to the latter; this practice is quite well attested in Greece, Magna Graecia and Italy as early as the classical period. 69 Even at Nemi, therefore, it is possible to identify a divinatory function for Diana, or at least to assume that certain
alleged Pythagoreans of Magna Graecia, Charondas of Catana and Zaleucus of Locri, or the Theban lawgiver, Philolaus of Corinth imply that many prominent poleis had bodies of laws written down, still not all poleis had laws on imperishable materials (e
