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Iuturna
In the myth and religion of ancient Rome, Juturna, or Diuturna, was a goddess of fountains, wells and springs, and the mother of Fontus by Janus. Mythology Juturna was an ancient Latin deity of fountains, who in some myths was turned by Jupiter into a water nymph – a Naiad – and given by him a sacred well in Lavinium, Latium, as well as another one near the temple to Vesta in the Forum Romanum. The pool next to the second well was called Lacus Juturnae. A local water nymph or river-god generally presides over a single body of water, but Juturna has broader powers which probably reflect her original importance in Latium, where she had temples in Rome and Lavinium, a cult of healthful waters at Ardea, and the fountain/well next to the lake in the Roman forum. It was here in Roman legend that the deities Castor and Pollux watered their horses after bringing news of the Roman victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC (Valerius Maximus, I.8.1; Plutarch, Life of Aem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacus Juturnae
The ''Lacus Iuturnae'', or ''Lacus Juturnae'' or Spring of Juturna, is the name of a formal pool built by the Romans near a spring or well in the Roman Forum. The pool was part of a shrine dedicated to the water nymph Juturna, and the name ''Lacus Iuturnae'' is also used for the spring and the shrine, both next to the pool.Eva Margareta Steinby, "Lacus Iuturnae" in ''Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae''. Edizioni Quasar, 1993. B000TGC41S The site was initially excavated by Giacomo Boni in the early twentieth century. Excavations from the 1980s onwards were supervised by Eva Margareta Steinby. Legends The shrine marks a place where Roman legend claims the divine twins Castor and Pollux stopped to water their horses while passing through the city, and where they announced Roman victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus, 495 BC. During the Roman Empire, when another spring in the city had dried up, the Vestal Virgin In ancient Rome, the Vestal Virgins or Vestals ( la, Vestālēs, si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
