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MINERVA , an See also:Italian goddess, subsequently identified with See also:Athena. She presided over all handicrafts, inventions, arts and sciences. Her See also:oldest See also:sanctuary at See also:Rome was in the See also:temple built by Tarquin on the Capitol, where she was worshipped with See also:Jupiter and See also:Juno. She had also a temple on the Aventine,
which was the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting-See also:place for dramatic poets and actors, whose organization into See also:gilds under her patronage dated from the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Livius Andronicus (q.v.). The See also:dedication See also:day of the temple was the 19th of See also:March, the See also:great festival of Minerva, called quinquatrus, because it See also:fell on the fifth day after the ides. All the See also:schools had holidays at this time, and the pupils on reassembling brought a See also:fee (minerval) to the teachers. In every See also:house also the quinquatrus was a See also:holiday, for Minerva (like Athena Ergane) was See also:patron of the See also:women's See also:weaving and See also:spinning and the workmen's See also:craft. At a later time the festival extended over five days, the last four being chiefly occupied with gladiatorial shows—because Minerva was the goddess of See also:war (See also:Ovid, See also:Fasti, iii. 809-834; See also:Juvenal x. 115, with See also:Mayor's See also:note). The erection of a temple to her by See also:Pompey out of the spoils of his eastern conquests shows that she was the bestower of victory, like Athena See also:Nike, and the dedication of a See also:vestibule in the See also:senate house by See also:Augustus recalls Athena the goddess of counsel (fouXaia). Under See also:Domitian, who claimed her See also:special See also:protection, the See also:worship of Minerva attained its greatest See also:vogue in Rome. The See also:emperor See also:Hadrian founded an educational institution, named after her the See also:Athenaeum. The 23rd of March had always been the day of the tubilustrium, or See also:purification of the trumpets used in the sacred See also:rites, so that the ceremony came to be on the last day of Minerva's festival, but it is very doubtful whether it was really connected with her. There was another temple of Minerva on the Caelian See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, where she was worshipped under the name of Capta, the " See also:captive," the origin of which is unknown. Here a festival called the lesser quinquatrus was celebrated on the 13th-14th of See also:June, chiefly by the See also:flute-players (See also:Livy ix. 30; Ovid, Fasti, vi. 651). As the See also:Romans learnt the use of the flute from the Etruscans, the fact of Minerva being the patron goddess of flute-players is in favour of her See also:Etruscan origin, although it may merely be a See also:reminiscence of the See also:Greek See also:story which attributed the invention of the flute to Athena. A carved See also:image of the goddess called the See also:Palladium, said to have been brought from See also:Troy to See also:Lavinium, and thence to Rome by the See also:family of the Nautii, was kept in the temple of See also:Vesta and carefully guarded as necessary to the prosperity of the See also:city.
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