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    Roman religion, the Liberalia (March 17) was the festival of Liber Pater and his consort Libera. The Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions...
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    Rome's plebeians and was part of their Aventine Triad. His festival of Liberalia (March 17) became associated with free speech and the rights attached...
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  • Liberalia Mons is a mountain on the surface of the dwarf-planet Ceres. Liberalia Mons is located in the north-western hemisphere of Ceres. It is to the...
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  • (218–201 BC). The reformed Bacchanalia rites may have been merged with the Liberalia festival. Bacchus, Liber and Dionysus became virtually interchangeable...
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    Libera might have been offered cult on March 17 during Liber's festival, Liberalia, or at some time during the seven days of Cerealia, held in mid-to-late...
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    (Henchir-Resdis) Leges (in the territory of Mila or Annaba) Legia Legis Volumni Liberalia (oasis of Lioua?) Limata (in the territory of Mila) Lugura (Aïn-Laoura...
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  • Martiale, in honor of Mars, was celebrated March 17, the same day as the Liberalia, during a prolonged "war festival" that marked the beginning of the season...
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  • March 15 and then through March 22–28, Argei, celebrated on March 16–17, Liberalia and Bacchanalia, celebrated March 17, Quinquatria, celebrated March 19–23...
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  • officiated over the Liberalia in Ancient Rome on 17 March. Marcus Terentius Varro described them as old women, who sold cookies during the Liberalia festival. Liber's...
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    fertility, wine, and growth, married to Libera. His festival was the Liberalia, celebrated on 17 March, but in some myths the festival was also held...
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    Eventually, the Bacchanalian ordeal was replaced by the softer Liberalia festival. Dionysia Liberalia "Bacchanalian dictionary definition - bacchanalian defined"...
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    Lingua Latina. VI 14. Liberalia ... In libris Saliorum quorum cognomen Agonensium, forsitan hic dies ideo appellatur Agonia [Liberalia ... In the books of...
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    Rome as the libertas that distinguished the free from the enslaved. The Liberalia, celebrated March 17 in honor of Liber, was a time of speaking freely...
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    identified Bacchus with their own Liber Pater, the "Free Father" of the Liberalia festival, patron of viniculture, wine and male fertility, and guardian...
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    Lenaia Ancient Greece and wine Ancient Rome and wine Bacchanalia and Liberalia Dionysus Cup, painted Attic drinking cup Greco-Roman mysteries Hellenistic...
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    their Latin variations (artes liberales, septem artes liberales, studia liberalia), the liberal arts were the continuation of Ancient Greek methods of inquiry...
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    this could be done. Tiberius died on 16 March AD 37, a day before the Liberalia festival. He was 77 years old. Suetonius, Tacitus and Cassius Dio repeat...
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    that Liber (who is present in the oldest calendars—those of Numa—in the Liberalia and in the month of Liber at Lavinium) was derived from another deity...
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    phallus is placed in a mikoshi, a portable Shinto shrine. Fertility rite Liberalia (Roman festival) Dunkle, Roger Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Pius) 16 XVII Kal. Apr. F • procession of the Argei 17 XVI Kal. Apr. NP • LIBERALIA • AGONALIA or Agonium Martiale for Mars • Argei continue • Circenses and...
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  • events; this ritual is somewhat unclear and may be the same as the Roman Liberalia.) Alternately, Samuel Ball Platner explains that the ritual involved priests...
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    began his military service. Traditionally, the ceremony was held on the Liberalia, the festival in honor of the god Liber, who embodied both political and...
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  • the year goddess Anna Perenna 16–17: the procession of the Argei 17: Liberalia, in honour of Liber; also an Agonalia for Mars 19: Quinquatrus, later...
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    The many types of togas were also named. Boys, up until the festival of Liberalia, wore the toga praetexta, which was a toga with a crimson or purple border...
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    instruction on the system of gromatics. This practical geometry was one of the liberalia studia; but the professors of geometry and the teachers of law were not...
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    traditionally given at a father's discretion to his son during the feast of Liberalia, to mark the onset of puberty and legal "coming of age", at around 15...
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    Greek: Λωτίς) was a nymph mentioned by Ovid. In Ovid's Fasti, at the Liberalia festival, Priapus tried to rape the nymph Lotis when everyone had fallen...
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  • of Liber, for the benefit of the Roman people. Liber's festival, the Liberalia, may date from this time. Patrician dominance was manifest in the Capitoline...
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    began his military service. Traditionally, the ceremony was held on the Liberalia, the festival in honor of the god Liber, who embodied both political and...
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    battered, the cold temperatures at the pole have preserved its shape. Liberalia Mons is near the equator and has a diameter of 90 km. NASA-JPL Photojournal...
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