Is There a Relationship Between the Three Roman Priests Called the Flamines Maiores, the Three Planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and the Altars of the Roman Circus?
2022; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.32474/jaas.2022.07.000255
ISSN2690-5752
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
ResumoThe Byzantine writer John the Lydian ( Ioannes Laurentius Lydus , ca. AD 490-ca. 565) says that «there was in Italy a certain Circe […] the daughter of Helios […] and in honor of her own father, I suppose, she was the first in Italy to celebrate a chariot race, which indeed was named circus after her. […] The aforementioned Circe first began the practice of chariot races in Italy, and established there a hippodrome, of four stades in length, and one [stade] in width.
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