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[[Image:Magna Mater courtesy of Vroma.jpg|right|thumb]]'''Magna Mater''', Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, had her main temple in [[Rome]] on the [[Palatine]]. The [[Megalesia]] was dedicated to her.
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'''Magna Mater''', Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, had according Samuel Ball Platner ("<i>A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome</i>", London: Oxford University Press, 1929) five temples in [[Rome]]. Her main temple was on the [[Palatine]] hill.  
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This [[Temple]] has been dedicated during the Punic wars on Idus Apr. 563 a.u.c. (10 April 191 b.c.e.) by Praetor M. Junius Brutus IV. From this day on, were held every year, in honour of the goddess and in front of the temple, the Ludi Megalesia. Magna Mater had become the Sacred Protectress of the City.
  
  
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The praetor M. Junius Brutus IV, the day of ID APR AVC DLXIII (10 April of 191 bce), dedicated for the first time the [[Temple of Magna Mater]] on the Palatine Hill; since that date every year in front of the temple were held the Ludi Megalesia in honour of the goddess. And since that date the Magna Mater was enthroned as Sacred Protectress of the City.
 
  
 
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The main temple of Magna Mater was on the [[Palatine hill]].
 
  
 
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*[[Magna Mater project]]
 
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*[[Magna Mater (Nova Roma)|Magna Mater in Nova Roma]]
 
*[[Magna Mater (Nova Roma)|Magna Mater in Nova Roma]]
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Magna Mater, Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, had according Samuel Ball Platner ("A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", London: Oxford University Press, 1929) five temples in Rome. Her main temple was on the Palatine hill.

This Temple has been dedicated during the Punic wars on Idus Apr. 563 a.u.c. (10 April 191 b.c.e.) by Praetor M. Junius Brutus IV. From this day on, were held every year, in honour of the goddess and in front of the temple, the Ludi Megalesia. Magna Mater had become the Sacred Protectress of the City.


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Contents



Reading List

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In Search of God the Mother

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Prof. Lynn Roller. (1999). ISBN 0520210247
Great scholarly work on Cybele, chapter on Rome is excellent.
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The Mother of the Gods

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Mark Munn. (2006). University of California Press. ISBN 0520243498
excellent, thought-provoking study of sovereignty & Cybele



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Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque (CCCA) I. Asia Minor

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M.J. Vermaseren. (1987). Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 9004079041
14 volumes in total in this series. Exhaustive compilation of epigraphy & statues, monuments



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Cybele, Attis and related Cults

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Eugene N. Lane, ed.. (1996). Brill. ISBN 9004101969
essays by various scholars



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Soteriology and mystic aspects in the cult of Cybele and Attis

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Giula Gasparro Sfameni. (1985). Brill. ISBN 9004072837
as the title says

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On the Nature of Things

Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiation in the Greco-Roman World

The Sign Language of Roman Coins

Bill Welch. (n.d.) Forvm Ancient Coins.
Cybele, The Mother Goddess



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Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons

Florence Mary Bennett. (1912).
Ch. 2: The Great Mother "extensively documented" with many references to primary sources.

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