was one of the oldest Roman pantheon of deities, and superintended the spring. Marco Varrone Paci said that was the stessoTito Tazio, introdurrne to worship in the city, dedicating a chapel in the Capitol.
Its name derives from the Latin Flos, Floris, flower in Italian, and was depicted as a young woman, often dressed in very colorful clothes and a crown of flowers in her hair, her description is that of a young joyful and cheerful character, with a strong inclination to sensuality and pleasure. His cult was entrusted to a Flamen Floral Flamini one of twelve children, his cult was always very popular and his feast fell between April 28 and May 3, when you place the Floreales Ludes, also called Floralia, celebrated with wild and orgiastic ceremonies in which each was allowed lust, with a profusion of jokes and drinking. The most ardent celebrants were prostitutes, which in these days of freedom saw their shape prevail over that of Ceres and matrons instead celebrated for their holidays chose white. For the holiday instead of Flora women dressed in colorful clothes, while men adorned their heads with garlands of flowers. The first days were all a play, a long celebration in the streets, a succession of orgies and parties that involves everyone. The last day was celebrated at the Circus Circus Maximus, where was the hunting of animals such as goats and rabbits, and sowed seeds in propitious sign.
The licentious character the floral, with the performance of the prostitutes who are stripped to the theater among the clamor of the public, would indicate the political mind-Roman Italic is a metaphysical connection between human sexuality and fertility, plant health, to which stimulating one through the sacred ritual, would stimulate the other.
His temple stood near the Circus Maximus, outside the sacred circle, but it was a deity of the people and this reinforces its proximity to the populace.
There are various descriptions of the origin of the Goddess Flora. Ovid makes an identification with the Greek CLORI, nymph and wife of Zephyrus
"Today son said Flora, but once I was Chloris, Latin pronunciation was altered in the Greek form of my name.
E, Chloris, I was a Nymph of the Fortunate Islands, where you know you lucky people lived happily.
my modesty is difficult to say how much it was my beauty, my mother gave it to generate a God
It was spring, and I went astray, and I saw Zephyr, and I walked away and took to chase, and I escaped.
But it was stronger than me.
Boreas, as he had dared to take a woman in the house of Erechtheus, his brother had given any right of robbery.
Zefiro But he gave me a fine of violence name of bride, there is no reason to cry in my marital bed.
I enjoy eternal spring, the year is always a shining light, the trees are full of leaves the earth covered with greenery. "
While Lactantius says that Flora was a prostitute who had left its heritage as a gift to the people of Rome, who, in gratitude, would have established the Floralia. In the latter case there is some confusion with the myth of Acca Larentia.
Flora was therefore very important in Rome, according to Plutarch even seems that the secret name of Rome was just the name of the goddess. The hypothesis is supported by the argument that Florence, a city founded by the Romans in 59 BC bear the name of Florentia, meaning "city under the protection of Flora" where "under the protection of Flora" stands for "under the protection of Rome."
flora, however, it is also known outside the Roman people, at the Sabines and Vestini at the Samnites where it is mentioned in the tables of Agnone.
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