Voluptas
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In Roman mythology, Voluptas or Volupta, according to Apuleius, is the daughter born from the union of Cupid and Psyche.[1] She is often found in the company of the Gratiae, or Three Graces, and she is known as the goddess of "sensual pleasures", "voluptas"[2] meaning "pleasure" or "delight".[3][4][5]
Some Roman authors[6][7][8][9] mention a goddess named Volupia, who had a temple, the Sacellum Volupiae on the Via Nova by the Porta Romana, where sacrifices were offered to the Diva Angerona. The name appears to signify "willingness".[10]
The corresponding goddess In Greek Mythology is Hedone.
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References
- ^ Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 6. 24 ff
- ^ “huic verbo (voluptatis) omnes qui Latine sciunt, duas res subiciunt, laetitiam in animo, commotionem suavem iucunditatis in corpore: Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37
- ^ Lewis & Short, "voluptas"
- ^ Cicero, De natura deorum, II. 23
- ^ Statius, Silvae 1. 3. 8
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Letters, VII. 20
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III. 5
- ^ Varro, De lingua Latina, V. 164
- ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 10
- ^ Robert E. A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans, Cambridge University Press 1970 pp.171ff.
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