The Veneralia was an ancient Roman festival celebrated April 1 (the Kalends of Aprilis) in honor of Venus Verticordia ("Venus the changer of hearts")...
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cultivated by married women, and on 1 April she was celebrated at the Veneralia festival with bathing. The epithet Verticordia derives from the Latin...
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Venus Verticordia ("Venus the Changer of Hearts"), celebrated at the Veneralia for her ability to transform untethered desire (libido) into pudicitia...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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and Venus Verticordia ("Venus changer of hearts") conjointly, at the Veneralia festival. Venus Verticordia was introduced by the elite, in an effort...
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major feriae conceptivae in April was the Latin Festival. 1 (Kalends): Veneralia in honour of Venus 4–10: Ludi Megalenses or Megalesia, in honor of the...
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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...
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