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Dea Dia

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Roman goddess of fertility

Dea Dia
Goddess of fertility and growth
Festivals	Ambarvalia
Equivalents
Greek	Demeter

Religion in ancient Rome
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Practices and beliefs
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Priesthoods
Pontifices Augures Vestales Flamines Fetiales Epulones Fratres Arvales
Deities
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Bust ofLucius Verus wearing the headdress of an "Arval brother," who honoured Dea Dia atAmbarvalia.

Dea Dia (Latin: "Goddess of Daylight", or "Bright Goddess") was a goddess of fertility and growth inancient Roman religion. She was sometimes identified withCeres, and sometimes with herGreek equivalentDemeter.^[1]

She was worshiped duringAmbarvalia, a festival to Ceres.^[2] Every May, her priests, theFratres Arvales, held a three-day festival in her honor.^[3]^[4]

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The nameDea Dīa (Classical Latin:[ˈd̪e.aˈd̪iː.a]) means 'Goddess of Daylight' or 'Bright Goddess'.^[5]^[6] The first element stems from the Latindea ('goddess'), while the second is related todiēs ('day'), probably in reference to the ritual prescription to announce in January the May ceremoniessub divo culmine ('under the celestial vault').^[5]

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^Michael Lipka (2009).Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach. BRILL. pp. 64–.ISBN 978-90-04-17503-7.
^Hildegard Temporini (1 December 1985).Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 1949–.ISBN 978-3-11-008289-0.
^Notes on Strabo's account,5.3
^Angelo Pellegrini (1865).Gli edifici del collegio dei Fratelli Arvali nel lugo della dea dia e i di loro avanzi: opuscolo corredato con pianta delineata dal medesimo. tipografia Chassi. pp. 6–.
^^a ^bSchilling 1992, pp. 113–114.
^Jenkyns 2013, p. 96.

Bibliography

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Jenkyns, Richard (2013).God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination. OUP Oxford.ISBN 978-0-19-967552-4.
Schilling, Robert (1992). "The Arval Brethren". In Bonnefoy, Yves (ed.).Roman and European Mythologies. University of Chicago Press.ISBN 978-0-226-06455-0.

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