HIS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Religion In Ancient Rome, Magna Graecia, Pontifex Maximus
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The head of the principal college of priests. An official appointed by a government to live in foreign city and protect and promote the government"s citizens and interests there. One of the two annually elected chief magistrates who jointly ruled the republic. A structure in ancient rome built during the latter part of the roman republican era. It was completed in seven years, and was dedicated early in 55 bc before the structure was fully completed. It was one of the first permanent (non-wooden) theaters in rome. She was associated with chastity and fertility in women, healing, and the protection of the roman state and people. According to roman literary sources, she was brought from magna graecia at some time during the early or middle republic, and was given her own state cult on the aventine hill. A sacred open space located just inside the wall surrounding the four hills the.
