Agenoria (mythology)
Agenoria is a
present participle agēns. She is named only by Augustine of Hippo, who places her among the deities who are concerned with childhood.[1] She is thus one of the goddesses who endows the child with a developmental capacity, such as walking, singing, reasoning, and learning to count.[2] W.H. Roscher includes Agenoria among the indigitamenta, the list of deities maintained by Roman priests to assure that the correct divinity was invoked for rituals.[3]
Renaissance allegory
Despite her obscurity, Agenoria is the title character of the first of four Latin
Jupiter. One of the wedding guests, Politia (Civilization) then praises the contributions to human society made by Labor, Agenoria, and the other attendant virtues. Jupiter asserts that Agenoria is under his divine protection.[4]
See also
- List of Roman birth and childhood deities
- Agenoria, an early British steam locomotive of 1829
References
- De Civitate Dei4.11.
- ^ Christian Laes, Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within (Cambridge University Press, 2011, originally published 2006 in Dutch), p. 68.
- ^ W.H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Leipzig: Teubner, 1890–94), vol. 2, pt. 1, p. 190.
- ^ David Marsh, Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance (University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 144–146.
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