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Encyclopedia Britannica



FLORA

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 528 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FLORA , in Roman mythology, goddess of
spring
 -time and
flowers
 , later identified with the Greek Chioris. Her festival at Rome, the Floralia, instituted 238 B.C. by order of the Sibylline books and at first held irregularly, became annual after 173. It lasted six days (
April
  28May 3), the first day being the anniversary of the
foundation
  of her temple. It included theatrical performances and animal hunts in the
circus
 , and vegetables were distributed to the people. The proceedings were characterized by excessive merriment and licentiousness. According to the legend, her
worship
  was instituted by Titus Tatius, and her priest, the flamen Floralis, by Numa. In art Flora was represented as a beautiful maiden, bedecked with
flowers
  (Ovid,
Fasti
 , v. 183 ff.; Tacitus, Annals, ii. 49).
The
term
  " flora is used in botany collectively for the plant-growth of a
district
 ; similarly " fauna is used collectively for the animals.


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