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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANNA PERENNA

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 63 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANNA PERENNA , an old Roman deity of the circle or " ring " of the year, as the name (per annum) clearly indicates. Her festival
fell
  on the full moon of the first month (
March
  15), and was held at the grove of the goddess at the first milestone on the Via Flaminia. It was much frequented by the city
plebs
 , and
Ovid
  describes vividly the revelry and licentiousness of the occasion (
Fasti
 ,iii. 523 foil.). From
Macrobius
  we learn (Sat. i. 12. 6) that sacrifice was made to her " ut annare perannareque commodeliccat," i.e. that the circle of the year may be completed happily. This is all we know for certain about the goddess and her cult; but the name naturally suggested myth-making, and Anna became a figure in stories which may be read in
Ovid
  (l.c.) and in Silius Italicus (8.5o foil.). The coarse myth told by Ovid, in which Anna plays a
trick
  on Mars when in love with Minerva, is probably an old Italian folk-tale, poetically applied to the persons of these deities when they became partially anthropomorphized under
Greek
 
influence
 . (W. W. F.*)


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