Roma
In ancient Roman religion, Roma was a female deity who personified the city of Rome and, more broadly, the Roman state. She was created and promoted to represent and propagate certain of Rome's ideas about itself, and to justify its rule. Her "Amazonian" iconography shows her "manly virtue" (virtus) as fierce mother of a warrior race, augmenting rather than replacing local goddesses.
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When
- First attested
- 200 BCE
- Attested period
- -200 – 500
- Historical notes
- Appears on coinage of the Roman Imperial era. Survived into the Christian period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Venus Felix, Whore of Babylon, Hestia Prytanitis, Livia, Julia, Hestia Romain, Hestia the Athenian Demos, Minerva, Bellona, Hestia
- manifested by
- Roma Aeterna
- child of
- Ares
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“the sacellum of the statue of Roma (which is exactly above the tomb of the Unknown Soldier) and two vertical marble reliefs that descend from the edges of the aedicula containing the statue of the goddess Rome and which run downwards laterally to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The statue of Roma”
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“These involved rituals at the Temple of Venus and Roma instead of the Tarentum, and the date was probably changed to the Parilia on April 21.”
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“At Delos, a priest served "Hestia the Athenian Demos" (the people or state) "and Roma".”
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