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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANGERONA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 8 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANGERONA , or ANGEROrr1A, an old
Roman
  goddess, whose name and functions are variously explained. According to ancient authorities, she was a goddess who relieved men from pain and sorrow, or delivered the Romans and their flocks from angina (
quinsy
 ); or she was the protecting goddess of Rome and the keeper of the sacred name of the city, which might not be pronounced lest it should be revealed to her enemies; it was even thought that Angerona itself was' this name.
Modern
  scholars regard her as a goddess akin to Ops, Acca Larentia and Dea Dia; or as the goddess of the new year and the returning sun (according to Mommsen, ab angerendo = &Tro nobs avackpeoOat Tov Xtov). Her festival, called Divalia or Angeronalia, was celebrated on the 21st of
December
 . The priests offered sacrifice in the temple of Volupia, the goddess of pleasure, in which stood a statue of Angerona, with a
finger
  on her mouth, which was bound and closed (
Macrobius
  i. 1o; Pliny, Nat. His'. iii. 9;
Varro
 , L. L. vi. 23). She was worshipped as Ancharia at
Faesulae
 , where an altar belonging to her has been recently discovered. (See
FAESULAE
 .)


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