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On a Certain Wedding Custom in Varro’s Account

Author(s): Barbara Hartleb-Kropidło
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Theology and Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Varro; marriage; Roman religion; Lares; Roman coinage

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on a certain wedding custom presented by the ancient Roman scholar, Marcus Terentius Varro in his work De vita populi Romani. According to him Roman bride on her way to her new home used to carry three coins, and to dedicate them to her husband, to Household Lares and to Compital Lares.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-110
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish