Editing Di indigetes (section)

===Koch===
Carl Koch's analysis<ref name=Koch_1933/> is particularly complete, and centers mainly on the question of ''Sol Indiges'': Koch has argued that ''Sol Indiges'' is the god to which the ''Agonium'' of December&nbsp;11 is devoted.{{efn|This argument relies on the fragment of the ''[[fasti]]'' discovered at Ostia in 1921, which reads [...&nbsp;ag]ON IND[igeti&nbsp;...]<ref>[[Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum|''CIL'']] XIV 4547</ref> and on [[John the Lydian|Johannes Lydus]] ''de Mensibus'' IV 155: ''...&nbsp;Agonalia daphneephorooi kai genarcheeei Heliooi&nbsp;...'': Agonalia for the laurel bearer and primaeval ancestor Sol, that Lydus compares to a similar custom in Athens terminating with laurel bearing. ''Sol Indiges'' had two festivals, the other one occurring on August&nbsp;9, on the [[Quirinal Hill|Quirinal]].}} Koch remarks too that the festival of December&nbsp;11 is in correspondence with the ''Matralia'' of June&nbsp;11, dedicated to Mater Matuta, considered the goddess of dawn and, in the ritual, the aunt of the sun, who is the son of the night. Koch was the first to advance the hypothesis of the ''Sol Indiges'' as the forefather (''Stammvater'') of the Roman nation.{{efn|Rose (1937) rejected Koch's interpretation of the ''di Indigetes'' as the primordial ancestors (''Stammvatern'') of the Roman nation on the grounds that the formula of Diodorus is not a Roman original, but is framed along the Greek fashion and looks to reflect a Greek original.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rose |first1=Herbert Jennings |title=The 'Oath of Philippus' and the ''Di Indigetes'' |journal=Harvard Theological Review |date=1937 |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=165–181 |doi=10.1017/S0017816000022227 |jstor=1507951|s2cid=162858232 }}</ref>}}