Hercules - Revision history

Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus at 14:23, 30 June 2011

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		+	==Cult==
		+	The cult of Hercules was one of the oldest and most popular in Italy. Believed to have been introduced from the Greek colonies of Croton and Tarentum in Magna Graecia, statues have also been found as early as 500 B.C.E in Eturia, which bordered Greek Campania. Hercules was regarded as a protector of travellers due to his myth and he was also worshipped by philosophers; Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics viewing him as the ideal man.
		+
		+	The cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boiarum in Rome was one of the earliest and most important, mentioned in Livy and others<ref>See e.g. Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] for an ample list of citations.</ref>. A common view that a peculiarity of the cult was that women were excluded is questioned by C. Schultz <ref>Celia E. Schultz, Modern Prejudice and Ancient Praxis: Female Worship of Hercules at Rome. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 133, (2000), pp. 291-297.{{JSTOR\|20190780}}</ref>
		+
		+
		+	==Epigraphy==
		+
		+	This dedication was discovered at the [[Ara Maxima]] in Rome. The dedicant, L. Fabius Cilon, urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 BCE. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor, crowned with laurel sacrificed to Hercules in ''[[ritus graecus]]'' at the Ara Maxima.
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		+	<div style="border:thin solid #000000; padding:1em; width:45%; margin-left:2em; font-variant:small-caps">
		+	Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis<br/>
		+	rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.<br/>
		+	Haec tibie nostra postes tenuis perferre camena,<br/>
		+	nam grates dignas tu potes efficere.<br/>
		+	Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>
		+	aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.
		+	<ref>{{CIL\|VI\|312}}</ref><ref>Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] also cites {{CIL\|VI\|312}}, {{CIL\|VI\|313}}, {{CIL\|VI\|314}}, {{CIL\|VI\|315}}, {{CIL\|VI\|317}}, {{CIL\|VI\|318}}, {{CIL\|VI\|316}}, {{CIL\|VI\|319}} and {{CIL\|VI\|1604}} as dating "to the second, third, and fourth centuries".</ref>
		+	</div>

	==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==		==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==
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	-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb		-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb
		+
		+	==References==
		+	<references/>
		+	Corpus des Prières Greques et Romaines

	[[Category:Roman Gods]]		[[Category:Roman Gods]]

M. Lucretius Agricola at 03:27, 14 March 2011

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	+	==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==
	+
	+	:There is a tradition that Hercules, after slaying Geryon, drove off his oxen, which were very beautiful. He swam across the Tiber, driving the cattle before him, to give them rest and to let them enjoy the luxuriant pasture, also to rest himself after his long journey. He lay down in a grassy spot on the banks of the river.
	+
	+	:There was a shepherd in this neighborhood, Cacus, who was proud of his own strength. Taken with the beauty of the cattle, he decided to carry them off while Hercules slept. Cacus realized that if he drove the herd in front of him to the cave, their tracks would show their owner what had happened, so he dragged the most beautiful of them by their tails backward into a cave.
	+
	+	:Hercules woke at dawn and he looked over his herd. He noticed that some of them were missing, so he went straight to the nearest cave, to see whether their tracks led there. When he saw that they were all turned away from it and led in no other direction he was troubled. Not knowing what to make up his mind to do, he started to drive off his herd from so dangerous a spot.
	+
	+	:Then some of the cows that were driven away lowed, as they usually do, when they missed those that were left. Hercules turned around when he heard the answering calls of those that were in the cave and he began advancing toward the sound. Cacus called upon the other shepherds for assistance and tried to stop him, but Hercules struck him with a club and killed him.
	+
	+	:Evander, who was an exile from the Peloponnesus, at that time governed the country more by his personal influence than by absolute power. He was held in reverence both because he could write, an impressive ability to the untutored locals, and even more on account of his mother [[Carmenta]], whom those peoples had marvelled at as a prophetess before the arrival of the [[Sybil]] in Italy.
	+
	+	:The assembling shepherds quickly crowded around the stranger, whom they accused of open murder. This attracted the attention of Evander, who listened to an account of the deed and the cause of it. Then gazing upon the personal appearance and mien of the hero, who was considerably more dignified and majestic than an ordinary man, asked who he was.
	+
	+	:As soon as he heard the name of the hero, and that of his father and native country, "Hail!" said he, "Hercules, son of [[Iuppiter]]! my mother, truthful interpreter of the will of the gods, has declared to me that you are destined to increase the number of the heavenly beings, and that on this spot an altar shall be dedicated to you, which in future ages a people most mighty on earth shall call Greatest, and honour in accordance with rites instituted by you." Hercules, having given him his right hand, declared that he accepted the prophetic intimation, and would fulfil the predictions of the fates, by building and dedicating an altar.
	+
	+	:On this altar then for the first time [[sacrifice]] was offered to Hercules with a choice heifer taken from the herd. These were the only religious rites that [[Romulus]] at that time adopted from those of foreign countries, being even then an advocate of immortality won by merit, to which the destiny marked out for him was conducting him.
	+
	+	-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb
	+
	+	[[Category:Roman Gods]]

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−	~~{{LanguageBar\|Hercules}}~~

−	~~==Cult==~~
−	The cult of Hercules was one of the oldest and most popular in Italy. Believed to have been introduced from the Greek colonies of Croton and Tarentum in Magna Graecia, statues have also been found as early as 500 B.C.E in Eturia, which bordered Greek Campania. Hercules was regarded as a protector of travellers due to his myth and he was also worshipped by philosophers; Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics viewing him as the ideal man.
−
−	The cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boiarum in Rome was one of the earliest and most important, mentioned in Livy and others<ref>See e.g. Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] for an ample list of citations.</ref>. A common view that a peculiarity of the cult was that women were excluded is questioned by C. Schultz <ref>Celia E. Schultz, Modern Prejudice and Ancient Praxis: Female Worship of Hercules at Rome. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 133, (2000), pp. 291-297.{{JSTOR\|20190780}}</ref>
−
−
−	~~==Epigraphy==~~
−
−	This dedication was discovered at the [[Ara Maxima]] in Rome. The dedicant, L. Fabius Cilon, urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 BCE. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor, crowned with laurel sacrificed to Hercules in ''[[ritus graecus]]'' at the Ara Maxima.
−
−	~~<div style="border:thin solid #000000; padding:1em; width:45%; margin-left:2em; font-variant:small-caps">~~
−	~~Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis<br/>~~
−	~~rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.<br/>~~
−	~~Haec tibie nostra postes tenuis perferre camena,<br/>~~
−	~~nam grates dignas tu potes efficere.<br/>~~
−	~~Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>~~
−	~~aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.~~
−	<ref>{{CIL\|VI\|312}}</ref><ref>Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] also cites {{CIL\|VI\|312}}, {{CIL\|VI\|313}}, {{CIL\|VI\|314}}, {{CIL\|VI\|315}}, {{CIL\|VI\|317}}, {{CIL\|VI\|318}}, {{CIL\|VI\|316}}, {{CIL\|VI\|319}} and {{CIL\|VI\|1604}} as dating "to the second, third, and fourth centuries".</ref>
−	~~</div>~~
−
−	~~==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==~~
−
−	:There is a tradition that Hercules, after slaying Geryon, drove off his oxen, which were very beautiful. He swam across the Tiber, driving the cattle before him, to give them rest and to let them enjoy the luxuriant pasture, also to rest himself after his long journey. He lay down in a grassy spot on the banks of the river.
−
−	:There was a shepherd in this neighborhood, Cacus, who was proud of his own strength. Taken with the beauty of the cattle, he decided to carry them off while Hercules slept. Cacus realized that if he drove the herd in front of him to the cave, their tracks would show their owner what had happened, so he dragged the most beautiful of them by their tails backward into a cave.
−
−	:Hercules woke at dawn and he looked over his herd. He noticed that some of them were missing, so he went straight to the nearest cave, to see whether their tracks led there. When he saw that they were all turned away from it and led in no other direction he was troubled. Not knowing what to make up his mind to do, he started to drive off his herd from so dangerous a spot.
−
−	:Then some of the cows that were driven away lowed, as they usually do, when they missed those that were left. Hercules turned around when he heard the answering calls of those that were in the cave and he began advancing toward the sound. Cacus called upon the other shepherds for assistance and tried to stop him, but Hercules struck him with a club and killed him.
−
−	:Evander, who was an exile from the Peloponnesus, at that time governed the country more by his personal influence than by absolute power. He was held in reverence both because he could write, an impressive ability to the untutored locals, and even more on account of his mother [[Carmenta]], whom those peoples had marvelled at as a prophetess before the arrival of the [[Sybil]] in Italy.
−
−	:The assembling shepherds quickly crowded around the stranger, whom they accused of open murder. This attracted the attention of Evander, who listened to an account of the deed and the cause of it. Then gazing upon the personal appearance and mien of the hero, who was considerably more dignified and majestic than an ordinary man, asked who he was.
−
−	:As soon as he heard the name of the hero, and that of his father and native country, "Hail!" said he, "Hercules, son of [[Iuppiter]]! my mother, truthful interpreter of the will of the gods, has declared to me that you are destined to increase the number of the heavenly beings, and that on this spot an altar shall be dedicated to you, which in future ages a people most mighty on earth shall call Greatest, and honour in accordance with rites instituted by you." Hercules, having given him his right hand, declared that he accepted the prophetic intimation, and would fulfil the predictions of the fates, by building and dedicating an altar.
−
−	:On this altar then for the first time [[sacrifice]] was offered to Hercules with a choice heifer taken from the herd. These were the only religious rites that [[Romulus]] at that time adopted from those of foreign countries, being even then an advocate of immortality won by merit, to which the destiny marked out for him was conducting him.
−
−	~~-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb~~
−
−	~~==References==~~
−	~~<references/>~~
−	~~Corpus des Prières Greques et Romaines~~
−
−	~~[[Category:Roman Gods]]~~

M. Lucretius Agricola at 14:39, 13 December 2009

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−	~~[[Image:P1000738-b4.jpg\|right\|Hercules. Probable cult statue from the [[Aedes Herculi]] in the [[Forum Boarium]], Roma.\|frame]]~~

	==Cult==		==Cult==
−	The cult of Hercules was one of the oldest and most popular in Italy. Believed to have been introduced from the Greek colonies of Croton and Tarentum in Magna Graecia, statues have also been found as early as 500 B.C.E in Eturia, which bordered Greek Campania. Hercules was regarded as a protector of travellers due to his myth and he was also worshipped by philosophers; Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics viewing him as the ideal man.	+	The cult of Hercules was one of the oldest and most popular in Italy. Believed to have been introduced from the Greek colonies of Croton and Tarentum in Magna Graecia, statues have also been found as early as 500 B.C.E in Eturia, which bordered Greek Campania. Hercules was regarded as a protector of travellers due to his myth and he was also worshipped by philosophers; Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics viewing him as the ideal man.
−	-	+
−	~~- The cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boiarum in Rome was one of the earliest and important, mentioned in Livy. A peculiarity of the cult was that women were excluded~~.	+

		+	The cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boiarum in Rome was one of the earliest and most important, mentioned in Livy and others<ref>See e.g. Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] for an ample list of citations.</ref>. A common view that a peculiarity of the cult was that women were excluded is questioned by C. Schultz <ref>Celia E. Schultz, Modern Prejudice and Ancient Praxis: Female Worship of Hercules at Rome. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, Bd. 133, (2000), pp. 291-297.{{JSTOR\|20190780}}</ref>


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	Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>		Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>
	aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.		aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.
−	<ref>{{CIL\|VI\|312}}</ref>	+	<ref>{{CIL\|VI\|312}}</ref><ref>Platner's "A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, (1929) under [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html Ara Maxima Herculis] also cites {{CIL\|VI\|312}}, {{CIL\|VI\|313}}, {{CIL\|VI\|314}}, {{CIL\|VI\|315}}, {{CIL\|VI\|317}}, {{CIL\|VI\|318}}, {{CIL\|VI\|316}}, {{CIL\|VI\|319}} and {{CIL\|VI\|1604}} as dating "to the second, third, and fourth centuries".</ref>
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	==Epigraphy==		==Epigraphy==
−	~~the~~ dedication was discovered at the Ara Maxima in Rome, ~~the dedicant~~ L. Fabius Cilon,urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 ~~B.C.E~~. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor crowned with laurel ~~in ritus graecus~~ sacrificed to Hercules at the Ara Maxima.	+
		+	This dedication was discovered at the [[Ara Maxima]] in Rome. The dedicant, L. Fabius Cilon, urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 BCE. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor, crowned with laurel sacrificed to Hercules in ''[[ritus graecus]]'' at the Ara Maxima.

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	==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==		==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==

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	Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>		Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>
	aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.		aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.
−	<ref>[[CIL~~]],~~ VI, 312</ref>	+	<ref>{{CIL\|VI\|312}}</ref>
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	==References==		==References==
	<references/>		<references/>
−	Corpus des ~~Prieres~~ Greques et Romaines	+	Corpus des Prières Greques et Romaines

	[[Category:Roman Gods]]		[[Category:Roman Gods]]

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	[[Image:P1000738-b4.jpg\|right\|Hercules. Probable cult statue from the [[Aedes Herculi]] in the [[Forum Boarium]], Roma.\|frame]]		[[Image:P1000738-b4.jpg\|right\|Hercules. Probable cult statue from the [[Aedes Herculi]] in the [[Forum Boarium]], Roma.\|frame]]
		+
		+	==Cult==
		+	The cult of Hercules was one of the oldest and most popular in Italy. Believed to have been introduced from the Greek colonies of Croton and Tarentum in Magna Graecia, statues have also been found as early as 500 B.C.E in Eturia, which bordered Greek Campania. Hercules was regarded as a protector of travellers due to his myth and he was also worshipped by philosophers; Pythagoreans, Cynics, and Stoics viewing him as the ideal man.
		+	-
		+	- The cult of Hercules at the Ara Maxima in the Forum Boiarum in Rome was one of the earliest and important, mentioned in Livy. A peculiarity of the cult was that women were excluded.
		+

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	the dedication was discovered at the Ara Maxima in Rome, the dedicant L. Fabius Cilon,urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 B.C.E. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor crowned with laurel in ritus graecus sacrificed to Hercules at the Ara Maxima.		the dedication was discovered at the Ara Maxima in Rome, the dedicant L. Fabius Cilon,urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 B.C.E. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor crowned with laurel in ritus graecus sacrificed to Hercules at the Ara Maxima.

−	<div style="border:thin solid #000000; padding:1em; width:50%; font-variant:small-caps~~; font-famil:serif~~">	+	<div style="border:thin solid #000000; padding:1em; width:45%; margin-left:2em; font-variant:small-caps">
	Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis<br/>		Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis<br/>
	rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.<br/>		rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.<br/>

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	the dedication was discovered at the Ara Maxima in Rome, the dedicant L. Fabius Cilon,urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 B.C.E. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor crowned with laurel in ritus graecus sacrificed to Hercules at the Ara Maxima.		the dedication was discovered at the Ara Maxima in Rome, the dedicant L. Fabius Cilon,urban praetor, was consul suffect in 193 B.C.E. Each year on August 12 the urban praetor crowned with laurel in ritus graecus sacrificed to Hercules at the Ara Maxima.

−	:::::~~:::~~Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis	+	<div style="border:thin solid #000000; padding:1em; width:50%; font-variant:small-caps; font-famil:serif">
−	~~::::::::::::~~rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.	+	Te precor, Alcide, sacris, invicte, peractis<br/>
−	~~::::::::~~Haec tibie nostra postes tenuis perferre camena,	+	rite tuis laetus dona ferens meritis.<br/>
−	~~:::::::::::~~nam grates dignas tu potes efficere.	+	Haec tibie nostra postes tenuis perferre camena,<br/>
−	~~:::::::::~~Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo	+	nam grates dignas tu potes efficere.<br/>
−	~~::::::::::::~~aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.	+	Sume libens simulacra, tuis queae munera Cilo<br/>
−	CIL, VI, 312	+	aris urbanus dedicat ipse sacris.
		+	<ref>[[CIL]], VI, 312</ref>
		+	</div>

−	~~==References==~~
−	~~Corpus des Prieres Greques et Romaines~~

	==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==		==Livy tells how Hercules came to Italy==
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	-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb		-adapted from [[Livy]] as translated by John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb
		+
		+	==References==
		+	<references/>
		+	Corpus des Prieres Greques et Romaines

	[[Category:Roman Gods]]		[[Category:Roman Gods]]