The Compitalia (Latin: Ludi Compitalicii; from compitum 'cross-way') was an annual festival in ancient Roman religion held in honor of the Lares Compitales...

protected local neighbourhoods (vici) were housed in the crossroad shrines (Compitalia), which served as a focus for the religious, social, and political lives...

neighborhoods or community associations of Rome (vici) in conjunction with the Compitalia, the new year festival held on movable dates between the Saturnalia and...

plebeian laws and tribunes. The priesthoods of local urban and rustic Compitalia street festivals, dedicated to the lares of local communities, were open...

Tullius established the Latin League, its Aventine Temple to Diana, and the Compitalia to mark his social reforms. Servius Tullius was murdered and succeeded...

compitum (shrine) devoted to these. Their annual public festival was the Compitalia. During the Republic, the cult of local or neighborhood tutelaries sometimes...

built the Temple of Diana and a new wall around the city; instituted the Compitalia. 534–509 BC Tarquinius Superbus Last King of Rome; overthrew Servius;...

occur on varying days to be announced by the Roman pontiffs. These were Compitalia ("Crossroads Festival") and Sementivae ("Festival of Sowing"), which the...

depended on some other factor, usually the agrarian cycle. They included Compitalia, Paganalia, Sementivae and Latinae (compare the moveable Christian holiday...

oscilla, the latter of which were used also at the Latin Festival and the Compitalia. Evans, James (1998). The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy. Oxford...

also co-opted and promoted the traditional and predominantly plebeian Compitalia shrines and extended their festivals, whose lares were known thereafter...

Brundisiae (Women from Brundisium) Cinerarius (Male Hair-Curler) Compitalia (The Compitalia Festival) Consobrini (Cousins) Crimen (Crime) Deditio (The Surrender)...

Esquiline hills. He is traditionally credited with the institution of the Compitalia festivals, the building of temples to Fortuna and Diana and, less plausibly...

Aesculapius and for the obscure god Vediovis. 3-5: most common dates for Compitalia, a movable feast (feriae conceptivae) 5 (Nones): Dies natalis (founding...

Roman men thought to be participating in the Compitalia festival, in a wall painting from Pompeii...

togae praetextae with dark red borders. It dates from the early Imperial Era and probably shows an event during Compitalia, a popular street festival....

the vicomagistri would feature in certain celebrations (primarily the Compitalia) in which they were accompanied by two lictors. These vici differed from...

sacrifice, see Argei. Oscilla were also part of the Latin Festival and the Compitalia: Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 272. Beard, North & Price 2004, p. 124. Seneca...

principis, or Augusti) were moved to 3 January—the usual date of the Compitalia—under Caligula in AD 38. Vota for the state continued to be held on January...

which its guardian spirits, or Lares, were thought to reside. During the Compitalia, a new year festival, the cult images were displayed in procession. Festus...

Larentalia as she was, according to Macrobius (floruit 395 - 423 AD), during Compitalia. Ovid, in his Fasti II, 571 ff poetically interprets what may be a variant...

because the swingers masked their faces (os celare) out of shame. At the Compitalia, Festus says (Paulus ex Fest., ed. Muller, p. 239) that pilae and effigies...

wont to give each of his slaves a congius of wine at the Saturnalia and Compitalia. Pliny relates, among other examples of hard drinking, that a Novellius...

Stek, Tesse D. (2009), "Roman Ritual in the Italian Countryside? The Compitalia and the Shrines of the Lares Compitales", Cult Places and Cultural Change...