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Bona Dea

goddess; so chaste no one but husband sees her after marriage. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 43]

Bona Dea

“goddess of earthly creatures.” [Rom. Myth.: Parrinder, 48]
See: Earth

Bona Dea

goddess of fertility; counterpart of Faunus. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 43]
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In 62 BC Pompeia hosted the festival of the Bona Dea, which no man was permitted to attend.
Chapter 5, "Religious Activities of Gentile Women and God-Fearers," includes an in-depth examination of the Vestal virgins and the Bona Dea cult, which was for women only.
In 62 BC she hosted the festival of the Bona Dea (' good goddess'), to which no man was permitted to attend.
A case in point is the worship of Bona Dea ("the Good Goddess").
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Saint Cecilia in Trastevere is near the site of a late-antique shrine to the Roman goddess Bona Dea, a proto-feminist healer whose cult Connolly thinks was absorbed into that of the saint.
In both sections Connolly advances the novel argument that Cecilia came into being, as it were, out of the pagan cult of the Bona Dea oclata, the Good Goddess with the Eye, whose ancient shrine near what became the titular church of S.
Cicero had disproved Clodius's alibi when the latter was accused of profaning the rites of the Bona Dea by attending them in disguise, and, though through bribery Clodius was acquitted, he hated Cicero and harassed him from then on.
Moving the discussion in a practical direction, Ramiz Shirimov, ICT architect at Bona Dea International Hospital, shared a use case wherein advanced IT was implemented to provide all patients with the highest quality of care.
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