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Fontus or Fons (pl.: Fontes, "Font" or "Source") was a god of wells and springs in ancient Roman religion. A religious festival called the Fontinalia was held on October 13 in his honor. Throughout the city, fountains and wellheads were adorned with garlands. [1] Fontus was the son of Juturna and Janus. [2]
Following is a month-by-month list of Roman festivals and games that had a fixed place on the calendar. For some, the date on which they were first established is recorded. A deity's festival often marked the anniversary (dies natalis, "birthday") of the founding of a temple, or a rededication after a major renovation. Festivals not named for ...
The festival after the fall of the Western Roman Empire [ edit ] With the earlier spread and later adoption of Christianity as the state religion, along with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the subsequent invasions, migrations, and conquests by barbarian populations , Rome, like everything that was its empire, saw the disappearance of ...
Although the Parentalia was a holiday on the Roman religious calendar, its observances were mainly domestic and familial. [2] The importance of the family to the Roman state, however, was expressed by public ceremonies on the opening day, the Ides of February, when a Vestal conducted a rite for the collective di parentes of Rome at the tomb of ...
Ferālia / f ɪ ˈ r eɪ l i ə / was an ancient Roman public festival [1] celebrating the Manes (Roman spirits of the dead, particularly the souls of deceased individuals) [2] which fell on 21 February as recorded by Ovid in Book II of his Fasti. [1] This day marked the end of Parentalia, a nine-day festival (13–21 February) honoring the ...
Unlike public festivals, the Caristia and other privately observed holidays were allowed to fall on even-numbered days of the Roman calendar. [8] The Cara Cognatio remained on the calendar long after the Roman Empire had come under Christian rule.
[4] It was held in early February on various dates in different curiae, [5] [6] [7] which in the period of the Roman monarchy and the Roman Republic were the thirty wards of the city of Rome. It was proclaimed every year by the curio maximus , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] who was a priest who was the head of the curiae .
During a highly active period of building construction and religious dedications following the Second Punic War, the aediles of 193 BC, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Aemilius Paullus, built a monumental portico linking the Porta Fontinalis to the Altar of Mars in the Campus Martius. [4]