Editing Libertas (section)

== Temples ==
The [[Roman Republic]] was established simultaneously with the creation of Libertas and is associated with the overthrow of the [[Tarquinia gens|Tarquin kings]]. She was worshiped by the [[Junia gens|Junii]], the family of [[Marcus Junius Brutus]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The American Catholic Quarterly Review ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJkNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA589|year=1880|publisher=Hardy and Mahony|page=589}}</ref>
In 238 BC, before the [[Second Punic War]], [[Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (consul 238 BC)|Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus]] built a temple to Libertas on the [[Aventine Hill]].<ref name="GalinskyLapatin2016">{{cite book|author1=Karl Galinsky|author2=Kenneth Lapatin|title=Cultural Memories in the Roman Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oW5dCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA230|date=1 January 2016|publisher=Getty Publications|isbn=978-1-60606-462-7|page=230}}</ref> Census tables were stored inside the temple's atrium. A subsequent temple was built (58–57 BC) on [[Palatine Hill]], another of the [[Seven hills of Rome]], by [[Publius Clodius Pulcher]]. By building and consecrating the temple on the site of the former house of then-exiled [[Cicero]], Clodius ensured that the land was legally uninhabitable. Upon his return, Cicero successfully argued that the consecration was invalid and thus managed to reclaim the land and destroy the temple. In 46 BC, the Roman Senate voted to build and dedicate a shrine to Libertas in recognition of [[Julius Caesar]], but no temple was built; instead, a small statue of the goddess stood in the [[Roman Forum]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1389461/Libertas |title=Libertas |year=2008 |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=1 September 2008}}</ref>