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Dea Dia (Latin: "Goddess of Daylight", or "Bright Goddess") was a goddess of fertility and growth in ancient Roman religion. She was sometimes identified with Ceres, and sometimes with her Greek equivalent Demeter.

She was worshiped during Ambarvalia, a festival to Ceres. Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held a three-day festival in her honor.

Name

The name Dea Dīa (Classical Latin: [ˈd̪e.a ˈd̪iː.a]) means 'Goddess of Daylight' or 'Bright Goddess'. The first element stems from the Latin dea ('goddess'), while the second is related to diēs ('day'), probably in reference to the ritual prescription to announce in January the May ceremonies sub divo culmine ('under the celestial vault').

See also

• Other goddesses also known as Dea ("The Goddess")
• Other goddesses also known as Dia ("The Divine One")

References

1. Michael Lipka (2009). Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach. BRILL. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-90-04-17503-7.
2. Hildegard Temporini (1 December 1985). Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1949–. ISBN 978-3-11-008289-0.
3. Notes on Strabo's account, 5.3
4. Angelo Pellegrini (1865). Gli edifici del collegio dei Fratelli Arvali nel lugo della dea dia e i di loro avanzi: opuscolo corredato con pianta delineata dal medesimo. tipografia Chassi. pp. 6–.
5. ^ Schilling 1992, pp. 113–114.
6. Jenkyns 2013, p. 96.

Bibliography

• Jenkyns, Richard (2013). God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-967552-4.
• Schilling, Robert (1992). "The Arval Brethren". In Bonnefoy, Yves (ed.). Roman and European Mythologies. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06455-0.

Further reading

• Price, S. R. F. (1992). "The Arval Brothers". The Classical Review. 42 (2): 341–344. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00284060. JSTOR 713240. S2CID 246879606.
• Brinton, D. G. (1892). "The Etrusco-Libyan Elements in the Song of the Arval Brethren". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 30 (139): 317–324. JSTOR 983355.
• Kilgour, Andrew (1938). "The Ambarvalia and the Sacrificivm Deae Diae". Mnemosyne. 6 (3): 225–240. JSTOR 4426866. ProQuest 1299139937.

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Deities (Dii Consentes)	Agenoria Angerona Anna Perenna Apollo Aurora Bellona Bona Dea Carmenta Castor and Pollux Ceres Cloacina Cupid Dea Dia Diana Dies Dīs Pater Egeria Fauna Faunus Flora Genius Hercules Janus Juno Jupiter Lares Lares Familiares Liber Libertas Luna Mars Mercury Minerva Neptune Nox Ops Orcus Penates Pluto Pomona Priapus Proserpina Quirinus Salacia Saturn Silvanus Sol Summanus Venus Veritas Vesta Vertumnus Vulcan Abstract deities Abundantia Aequitas Aeternitas Africa Annona Averruncus Caelus Concordia Feronia Fides Fortuna Fontus Laverna Pax Pietas Roma Salus Securitas Spes Tranquillitas Terra Victoria
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Events	Golden Bough Founding of Rome Rape of the Sabine Women Battle of Lacus Curtius
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