Output details
31 - Classics
University of Oxford
Article title
Venus Felix a Siracusa? Per una rilettura dei decreti della synodos dei technitai di Afrodite Hilara
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Epigraphica
Article number
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Volume number
72
Issue number
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First page of article
21
ISSN of journal
0013-9572
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This is a new edition of two Syracusan decrees promulgated by a synodos of technitai of Aphrodite Hilara. These documents are unique for two reasons: the guilds of technitai worship almost exclusively Dionysus as their guardian patron, and Aphrodite is mentioned with a new epithet. Analysis of literary sources and inscriptions shows that Aphrodite Hilara ("propitious, favourable") is considered as patron of the technai. Concerning the innovative epithet, it is interesting to note that Aphrodite Hilara is a protector of technitai and she could coincide with the Venus Felix, whose cult was introduced by Sulla.
