- Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing Concordia on the obverse, and two statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina on the reverse.
- They named it the Cloaca Maxima, the “great purifying stream”, and placed it under the protection of a goddess they called Venus Cloacina.
- 2024 hakkında güncel bilgilerle Venüs Cloacina hakkında bilmediğiniz her şey. Venüs Cloacina'nun tanımı ve terimi.
- The Temple of Venus Cloacina is located next to the Basilica Aemilia. The monument consists of a circular marble base on which originally rested a small building.
- In this sense, Cloacina would be known as Venus Cloacina or Venus the Cleanser as she also presided over the purification of sex during marriage.
- While sewers are smelly and horrible, Venus Cloacina was the goddess of purity, because she cleaned it all out.
- Today I will tell you about one of the most inconspicuous relics of Roman civilization that can be found in the Forum – the shrine of Venus Cloacina.
- Cloacina's name comes from the Latin verb cloare or cluere, meaning "to wash, clean or purify". At some later date Cloacina was assimilated to Venus, who was...
- On the Roman Forum, just in front of the Basilica Aemilia and above the Cloaca Maxima, stood the little, round Venus Cloacina shrine.
- 471: apud Cloacinae sacrum). In process of time Cloacina was arbitrarily identified with Venus and called Venus Cloacina (Plin.
- At some point, this divinity was for unknown reasons associated with Venus and subsequently called Venus Cloacina, "Venus of the Sewer."
- This meaning is also alluded to in the tradition about the origin and worship of Venus Cloacina, for it is said that, when Tatius and Romulus were arrayed...
- The Shrine of Venus Cloacina (Sacrum Cloacina) in the Forum Romanum was a small shrine for Cloacina, the patron deity of the Cloaca Maxima.
