Voluptas

Voluptas

Voluptas

Roman deity, personification of pleasure

In Roman mythology, Voluptas or Volupta is the daughter born from the union of Cupid and Psyche, according to Apuleius.[1] The Latin word voluptas[2] means 'pleasure' or 'delight';[3][4][5] Voluptas is known as the goddess of "sensual pleasures". She is often found in the company of the Gratiae, or Three Graces.

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Some Roman authors[6][7][8][9] mention a goddess named Volupia, a name which appears to signify "willingness".[10]. She had a temple, the Sacellum Volupiae, on the Via Nova, by the Porta Romana. Sacrifices were offered to the Diva Angerona there.

The corresponding goddess in Greek mythology is Hedone.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 6. 24 ff
  2. [2]
    “huic verbo (voluptatis) omnes qui Latine sciunt, duas res subiciunt, laetitiam in animo, commotionem suavem iucunditatis in corpore: Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37
  3. [3]
    Lewis & Short, "voluptas"
  4. [4]
    Cicero, De natura deorum, II. 23
  5. [5]
    Statius, Silvae 1. 3. 8
  6. [6]
    Pliny the Elder, Letters, VII. 20
  7. [7]
    Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, III. 5
  8. [8]
    Varro, De lingua Latina, V. 164
  9. [9]
    Macrobius, Saturnalia, I. 10
  10. [10]
    Robert E. A. Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans, Cambridge University Press 1970 pp.171ff.
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