Editing Dea Dia

{{Short description|Roman goddess of fertility}}
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| Greek_equivalent            =  [[Demeter]]
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{{Ancient Roman religion}}
[[File:Bust of Lucius Verus portrayed as a arval brother.jpg|thumb|Bust of [[Lucius Verus]] wearing the headdress of an "Arval brother," who honoured Dea Dia at [[Ambarvalia]].]]
'''Dea Dia''' (Latin: "Goddess of Daylight", or "Bright Goddess") was a goddess of fertility and growth in [[Religion in ancient Rome|ancient Roman religion]]. She was sometimes identified with [[Ceres (Roman mythology)|Ceres]], and sometimes with her [[Religion in ancient Greece|Greek]] equivalent [[Demeter]].<ref name="Lipka2009">{{cite book|author=Michael Lipka|title=Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1zGZQnqWH2MC&pg=PA64|year=2009|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-17503-7|pages=64–}}</ref>

She was worshiped during [[Ambarvalia]], a festival to Ceres.<ref name="Temporini1985">{{cite book|author=Hildegard Temporini|title=Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eOe3Fv1UUKoC&pg=PA1949|date=1 December 1985|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-008289-0|pages=1949–}}</ref> Every May, her priests, the [[Fratres Arvales]], held a three-day festival in her honor.<ref>Notes on Strabo's account, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=5:chapter=3&highlight=dea%2Cdia  5.3]</ref><ref name="Pellegrini1865">{{cite book|author=Angelo Pellegrini|title=Gli edifici del collegio dei Fratelli Arvali nel lugo della dea dia e i di loro avanzi: opuscolo corredato con pianta delineata dal medesimo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ONOEjzuk7CsC&pg=PP6|year=1865|publisher=tipografia Chassi|pages=6–}}</ref>

== Name ==
The name ''Dea Dīa'' ({{IPA|la-x-classic|ˈd̪e.a ˈd̪iː.a|lang|link=yes}}) means 'Goddess of Daylight' or 'Bright Goddess'.{{Sfn|Schilling|1992|pp=113–114|p=}}{{Sfn|Jenkyns|2013|p=96}} The first element stems from the Latin ''dea'' ('goddess'), while the second is related to ''diēs'' ('day'), probably in reference to the ritual prescription to announce in January the May ceremonies ''sub divo culmine'' ('under the celestial vault').{{Sfn|Schilling|1992|pp=113–114|p=}}

==See also==
* [[Dea (disambiguation)|Other goddesses also known as Dea]] ("The Goddess")
* [[Dia (mythology)|Other goddesses also known as Dia]] ("The Divine One")

==References==
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=== Bibliography ===
* {{cite book |last1=Jenkyns |first1=Richard |title=God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination |date=2013 |publisher=OUP Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-967552-4 }}
* {{Cite book|last=Schilling|first=Robert|url=https://archive.org/details/romaneuropeanmyt00yves|url-access=registration|title=Roman and European Mythologies|date=1992|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-06455-0|editor-last=Bonnefoy|editor-first=Yves|language=en|chapter=The Arval Brethren}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite journal |last1=Price |first1=S. R. F. |title=The Arval Brothers |journal=The Classical Review |date=1992 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=341–344 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00284060 |jstor=713240 |s2cid=246879606 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Brinton |first1=D. G. |title=The Etrusco-Libyan Elements in the Song of the Arval Brethren |journal=Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society |date=1892 |volume=30 |issue=139 |pages=317–324 |jstor=983355 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26865482 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Kilgour |first1=Andrew |title=The Ambarvalia and the Sacrificivm Deae Diae |journal=Mnemosyne |date=1938 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=225–240 |id={{ProQuest|1299139937}} |jstor=4426866 }}
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