Spes
Spes (
religion. Numerous temples to Spes are known, and inscriptions indicate that she received private devotion as well as state cult.[1]
Republican Hope
Forum Olitorium were incorporated into the San Nicola in Carcere
churchJuno Sospita at the Forum Olitorium, drawn by Lanciani
Theater of Marcellus in the scale model of ancient Rome at the Museum of Roman Civilization
During the
Praenestine Gate.[2][3] It was associated with events that occurred in the 5th century BC,[4][3] but its existence as anything except perhaps a private shrine has been doubted.[5]
A well-documented
Forum Olitorium)[8] just outside the Carmental Gate. It was twice burnt down and restored, first in 213 BC and then again in AD 7.[9]
At
Imperial Hope
Spes was one of the divine personifications in the
Augustus to ensure blessed conditions.[11]
Like
Fides ("Faith, Fidelity, Trustworthiness").[12]
Greek Elpis
The
cult in Greece. The primary myth in which Elpis plays a role is the story of Pandora. The Greeks had ambivalent or even negative feelings about "hope", with Euripides describing it in his Suppliants as "delusive" and stating "it has embroiled many a State",[13] and the concept was unimportant in the philosophical systems of the Stoics and Epicureans.[3]
See also
- Hope, the concept
- Luck (Fortuna), Faithfulness(Fides) as Roman goddesses
References
Citations
- ^ J. Rufus Fears, "The Cult of Virtues and Roman Imperial Ideology," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.17.2 (1981), p. 837.
- ^ Frontinus, De aquaeductu 1.19.
- ^ a b c d e Momigliano (1987), p. 75.
- ^ Livy 2.51.2; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 9.24.4.
- ^ Fears, "The Cult of Virtues," p. 848.
- ^ Cicero, De legibus 2.28.
- ^ Fears, "The Cult of Virtues," p. 835.
- ^ . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
- ^ Burn (1871), p. 305.
- ^ Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 3770.
- ^ J. Rufus Fears, "The Theology of Victory at Rome: Approaches and Problem," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.17.2 (1981), pp. 812–814.
- ^ Fears, "The Theology of Victory at Rome," p. 744.
- ^ Euripedes, Suppliants, l. 479.
Bibliography
- Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, & Co.
- Momigliano, Arnaldo (1987), "Religion in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem in the First Century B.C.", On Pagans, Jews, and Christians, Wesleyan University Press
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spes.
- Clark, Mark Edward. "Spes in the Early Imperial Cult: 'The Hope of Augustus'." Numen 30.1 (1983) 80–105.
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