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- The Veneralia was an ancient Roman festival celebrated April 1 (the Kalends of Aprilis) in honor of Venus Verticordia ("Venus the changer of hearts")...
- honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, her Veneralia being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally...
- Verticordia on April 1 (Kalendae Aprilis), which first appears with the name Veneralia in the mid-4th century AD. According to the poet Ovid, Fortuna Virilis...
- Venus Verticordia ("Venus the Changer of Hearts"), celebrated at the Veneralia for her ability to transform untethered desire (libido) into pudicitia...
- cultivated by married women, and on 1 April she was celebrated at the Veneralia festival with public bathing. The epithet Verticordia desrives from the...
- Bacchus, the myrtle to lovely Venus, and his own laurel to Phoebus." At the Veneralia, women bathed wearing crowns woven of myrtle branches, and myrtle was...
- Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It is a fanciful depiction of the Roman festival Veneralia celebrated in honor of Venus Verticordia. Rubens thought highly of Titian...
- Modern date Roman date status Observances April 1 Kalendae Aprilis F • Veneralia for Venus and Fortuna Virilis 2 a.d. IV Non. Apr. F 3 III Non. Apr. C...
- Ovid says that the statue of Venus Verticordia was bathed as part of the Veneralia on the first of April, but the absence of this lavatio in any other source...
- exception regarding female nudity was during certain festivals, such as Veneralia, that included ritual nudity. From around 300 BC Indian mystics have utilized...