- The Megalesia,
Megalensia, or
Megalenses Ludi was a
festival celebrated in
ancient Rome from
April 4 to
April 10, in
honour of Cybele, whom the Romans...
- "Phrygian degeneracy" of the Galli,
personified in Attis, be
removed from the
Megalensia to
reveal the dignified, "truly Roman"
festival rites of the
Magna Mater...
- (Matchmaker)
Gratulatio Lucubratio Materterae (Maternal Aunts)
Megalensia (The
Megalensia Festival)
Nurus (Daughter-in-Law)
Satura Socrus (Mother-in-Law)...
- (Freedman)
Mariti (Married Couple)
Matertertae (Maternal Aunts)
Megalensia (The
Megalensia Festival) Omen (The Omen)
Pantelius Pompa (Procession, or Parade)...
-
Varro considered these and the Robigalia,
along with the
Great Mother's
Megalensia late in the month, the "original"
Roman holidays in April. The Robigalia...
-
established 204 BC in
honor of the
Magna Mater, in
conjunction with the
Megalensia. Ludi Ceriales,
April 12–19,
established 202 BC in
conjunction with the...
-
months ahead of the Sun in the 160s, Terence's
plays that
premiered at the
Megalensia,
though officially scheduled in April,
would actually have
premiered in...
-
stone that
represented the divinity, and of the
establishment of the
Megalensia. The
stone itself was
perhaps a meteorite, and is thus
described by one...
-
unnamed flowers in the
ecstatic procession of the
Magna Mater for the
Megalensia in April. The most
vivid and
complex account of how the
violet was created...
-
which was
carried to the
river Almo
during her
festival 4–10 April, the
Megalensia. Statue-bathing was not
characteristic of
early Roman religion; it may...
