Vestalia
vestalia roman religious festival honor vesta goddess hearth burning continuation sacred fire rome held – june reserved womensonly event domestic family life general represented festival goddess house spirit storechamber — vesta penates — vestalia first day festivity penus vestae sanctum sanctorum temple vesta usually curtained opened time year woman offered sacrifice long curtain remained open mother could come barefoot disheveled leave offering goddess exchange blessing family animal consecrated vesta donkey crowned garland flower bit bread june ovid say donkey adorned necklace breadbits memory myth vesta nearly violated priapus myth untimely bray donkey startle priapus cause flee say donkey honored june thanks service provided bakery final day june quando stercum delatum fa dung may removed lawfully penus vestae solemnly closed flaminica dialis observed mourning temple subjected purification called stercoratio filth swept temple carried next route called clivus capitolinus tiber military feriale duranum ad record first day vestalia vesta apperitur last day vesta cluditur roman festival carmentalia floralia cerealia fornacalia opiconsivia divalia furrinalia matralia lemuria festival matronalia liberalia parilia rosalia festival rose celebrated throughout roman empire may queen bowerstock glenn warren brown peter grabar oleg late antiquity guide postclassical world belknap press harvard university press isbn brulé pierre la fille dathènes la religion de fille à lépoque classique mythes cultes et société french paris belle lettres isbn fraschetti augusto roman woman translated linda lappin university chicago press isbn littlewood r joy commentary ovid fasti book vi oxford new york oxford university press isbn mommsen theodor history rome vol article incorporates text source public domain newlands carole elizabeth playing time ovid fasti volume cornell university press isbn