title: Macrobius, Saturnalia 3. 9 and the Roman Cult of Iuno Caelestis
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Isaenko, Roman A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:07:46Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-02-07T14:07:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Roman A. Isaenko. Macrobius, Saturnalia 3. 9 and the Roman Cult of Iuno Caelestis. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 208–215.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu20.2019.203
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17053
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The cult of Tanit, the patron goddess of Carthage, known to the Romans as Iuno Caelestis,
  had long been thought to have been transferred to Rome during the rule of Septimius
  Severus, as a number of inscriptions and coins mentioning or depicting the deity date back
  to this period. More recently, an alternative hypothesis was proposed, disputing the importance
  of this evidence and suggesting that the worship of Iuno Caelestis had been introduced
  by Elagabalus, along with a Carthaginian statue of the goddess that had been wed to
  his own divine patron. This article aims to defend the original dating by examining a ritualistic
  formula preserved by Macrobius, according to which Iuno Caelestis was summoned to
  Rome by Scipio Aemilianus at the end of the Third Punic War. The article argues that while
  the formula itself is most likely apocryphal, the information it contains still constitutes an
  etiological legend of the Roman cult’s foundation, and it would not exist if the cult did not.
  Therefore, the reign of Septimius Severus, the time period when the formula was recorded
  by Macrobius’ own source, Serenus Sammonicus, can be used as a terminus ante quem for
  the purposes of dating the cult’s transfer.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Elagabalus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evocatio
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Iuno Caelestis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Macrobius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Serenus Sammonicus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Septimius Severus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Macrobius, Saturnalia 3. 9 and the Roman Cult of Iuno Caelestis
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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