- 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.
- There is a set of stairs with a railing that leads down to where a pair of small statues stand that are either both Cloacina or Cloacina and Venus.
- Onların Cloacina tanrıçası böyle büyük ve muzaffer çalışmalarında niteliği her yerde cesaret sanmıyorum ya sefahat gelen kendi alır, ya da voluptuousness...
- Cloacina, the goddess of the Cloaca Maxima, the open canal constructed in the Roman Forum around 600 BC, was a more ancient goddess, while Venus was...
- While sewers are smelly and horrible, Venus Cloacina was the goddess of purity, because she cleaned it all out.
- Some consider the ancient association of Cloacina with Venus, the great Roman Goddess of love, beauty, and gardens, to be a bit of a puzzle, as it seems to have...
- 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.
- On the Roman Forum, just in front of the Basilica Aemilia and above the Cloaca Maxima, stood the little, round Venus Cloacina shrine.
- Venus, in Roman mythology, is the goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. She is the Roman counterpart to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
- It was hailed as Venus Cloacina and perhaps was one of the two statues enshrined at the Sacrum (shrine) of Venus Cloacina, which stood in the Forum over a...
- In process of time Cloacina was arbitrarily identified with Venus and called Venus Cloacina (Plin.
- The Shrine of Venus Cloacina (Sacrum Cloacina) in the Forum Romanum was a small shrine for Cloacina, the patron deity of the Cloaca Maxima.
- Also known as the “Venus of the Sewers,” Cloacina may have been an Etruscan deity of the original stream.
- One such goddess is Cloacina, the ancient Roman goddess of the sewers. She’s so important, yet rarely mentioned in the same breath as Minerva or Venus.