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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.
 
 
[[Image:Magna Mater courtesy of Vroma.jpg|left|thumb]]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.
 
 
[http://www.magnamaterproject.org/en/mm.htm  '''More...''']
 
 
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==Reading List==
 
{{Bookinfo
 
| title=In Search of God the Mother
 
| author=Prof. Lynn Roller
 
| date=1999
 
| publisher=
 
| ISBN=0520210247
 
| comment=Great scholarly work on Cybele, chapter on Rome is excellent.
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Mother of the Gods
 
| author=Mark Munn
 
| date=2006
 
| publisher=University of California Press
 
| ISBN=0520243498
 
| comment=excellent, thought-provoking study of sovereignty & Cybele
 
|format=compact
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Corpus Cultus Cybelae Attidisque (CCCA) I. Asia Minor
 
| author=M.J. Vermaseren
 
| date=1987
 
| publisher=Brill Academic Publishers
 
| ISBN=9004079041
 
| comment=14 volumes in total in this series. Exhaustive compilation of epigraphy & statues, monuments
 
|format=compact
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Cybele, Attis and related Cults
 
| author= Eugene N. Lane, ed.
 
| date=1996
 
| publisher=Brill
 
| ISBN=9004101969
 
| comment=essays by various scholars
 
|format=compact
 
}}
 
 
{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Soteriology and mystic aspects in the cult of Cybele and Attis
 
| author=Giula Gasparro Sfameni
 
| date=1985
 
| publisher=Brill
 
| ISBN=9004072837
 
| comment=as the title says
 
|format=compact
 
}}
 
 
{{Bookinfo
 
| title=On the Nature of Things
 
| author=[[Lucretius]] Trans. William Ellery Leonard
 
| date=
 
| publisher=
 
| ISBN=
 
| comment=[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/lucretius-reruma.html Description of the cultus of Magna Mater]
 
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==Useful link(s)==
 
 
*[[Magna Mater project]]
 
*[[Magna Mater (Nova Roma)|Magna Mater in Nova Roma]]
 
 
==References==
 
 
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* Bennett, Florence Mary (1912). Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons [http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/rca/rca03.htm Ch. 2: The Great Mother] "extensively documented" with many references to primary sources.
 
* Welch, Bill. (n.d.). The Sign Language of Roman Coins. Forvm Ancient Coins. [http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/reverse_cybele.html Cybele, The Mother Goddess]
 
* Willoughby, Harold R. (1929). Pagan Regeneration: A Study of Mystery Initiation in the Greco-Roman World [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/pr/pr07.htm Ch. V: The Regenerative Rites of the Great Mother]
 
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[[Category:Roman Gods]]
 

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