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LIBER and LIBERA, in Roman mythology, deities, male and female, identified with the Greek Dionysus and Persephone. In honour of Liber (also called Liber Pater
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character on the primitive religion, and. connected it with the framework of society. At this time the youths laid aside the boy's toga praetexta and assumed the man's toga libera or virilis (Fasti
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character of his worship : When, at an early period, the Hellenic religion of Demeter spread to Rome, Liber and Libera were identified with Dionysus and Persephone, and associated with another Italian goddess Ceres, who was identified with Demeter. By order of the Sibylline books, a temple was built to these three deities near the Circus Flaminius; the whole cultus was borrowed from the Greeks, down even, to the terminology, and priestesses were brought from the Greek cities.End of Article: LIBER If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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