Love, death, and funerals in ancient Rome: on the goddess Libitina

IF 0.7 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Mortality Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/13576275.2022.2066290

D. Miano

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Abstract

ABSTRACT One of the most striking characteristics of Roman funerals, is that they and the related personnel were associated with a suburban grove consecrated to Libitina, whose name can also metonymically mean ‘death’. Several ancient writers talk about this goddess, and occasionally associate her with Venus. In this paper, I shall use metonymy to explore the semantics of the deity, and I shall argue that Libitina was a liminal deity, whose position at the margins of the city was mirrored by her position at the margins of Roman polytheism. This shows the strong interconnection between language, urbanity and religion.

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古罗马的爱、死和葬礼——论利比提娜女神

摘要罗马葬礼最显著的特点之一是，他们和相关人员都与利比提纳的郊区小树林有关，利比提娜的名字在转喻上也有“死亡”的意思。一些古代作家谈到这位女神，偶尔会把她和金星联系在一起。在本文中，我将使用转喻来探索神的语义，我将认为利比提娜是一位边缘神，她在城市边缘的地位反映了她在罗马多神教边缘的地位。这显示了语言、都市和宗教之间的紧密联系。

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Mortality Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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1.80

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12.50%

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