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- The lectisternium was an ancient Roman propitiatory ceremony, consisting of a meal offered to gods and goddesses. The word derives from lectum sternere...
- are ****umed to be the deities of the lectisternium. A fragment from Ennius, within whose lifetime the lectisternium occurred, lists the same twelve deities...
- 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...
- of the lectisternium ceremony. (Livy 5, 13) 348 BC: A plague struck Rome after a brief skirmish with the Gauls and Gr****s. Another lectisternium was ordered...
- Gr**** pantheon whose theology was later tied to a Roman deity. The lectisternium of 399 BC indicated that the Gr**** figures of Poseidon, Artemis, and...
- Punic War, Juventas was included in sacrifices in 218 BC relating to a lectisternium, a public banquet at which divine images were displa**** as if the deities...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- the anniversary of the Temple of Tellus was celebrated along with a lectisternium (banquet) for Ceres, who embodied "growing power" and the productivity...