Egeria
Egeria is an indigenous Italian divinity of springs and streams. In some of the works of the Greek-educated Latin poets, the nymphs gradually absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Carmentis, Fontus).
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When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Fontus, Hyrie, Carmentis, Lymphae, Juno, Fons, Muses, novensiles, Jove, Mars Quirinus, Military Lar, Virbius, Sol/Helios, genius loci, Juturna, undines, Faunus
- aspect of
- Camenae
- consort of
- Numa Pompilius
- teacher of
- Numa Pompilius
- allied with
- Diana Nemorensis
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“the nymphs gradually absorbed into their ranks the indigenous Italian divinities of springs and streams (Juturna, Egeria, Carmentis, Fontus) while the Lymphae (originally Lumpae), Italian water goddesses, owing to the accidental similarity of their names, could be identified with the Greek Nymphae”
#7593 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“David Gallagher argues that, although they had Paracelsus as a source, 19th and 20th-century German authors found inspiration for their many versions of undine in classical literature, particularly Ovid's Metamorphoses, especially given the transformation of many of their undines into springs: Hyrie (book VII) and Egeria (book XV) are two such characters.”
#7654 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Egeria, the divine consort of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome considered the founder of Roman law and religion. Numa had established a bronze shrine at the fountain in their grove, the site of his divine union with Egeria.”
#26138 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Egeria is the name of the nymph who inspired the second legendary king of Rome, Numa Pompilius...when she dictated to him the rules that established the original framework of laws and rituals of Rome”
#27189 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“During a later phase of Hellenization, Virbius, one of two figures associated with the ancient cult of Diana Nemorensis (the other being Egeria), was assimilated to the Hippolytus, as a metamorphosis.”
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