Talk:Quirinus

Comments

Is it generally agreed that Quirinus was the genius (mythology) of the place, and that his cult was site-specific? or is it not? and should we mention this in the entry? Wetman 18:50, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I added an explanation of his original role into the article. I think his early political importance was large enough to make him not-minor. Bacchiad 03:12, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Questions

Was the festival for Quirinius held on the 17th of February according to the Gregorian or the Julian Calendar? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xact (talk • contribs) 23:11, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The Roman calendar, which used the current months even before Julius Caesar reorganized it in 46 BC.Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Dumezil

Georges Dumézil, in his Archaic Roman Religion, argues against the story of the Roman-Sabine fusion at the founding of the city.

So? Dumezil makes a lot of claims which nobody else believes.

We shiould really be clearer, however, that Romulus, Tatius, and the whole of their history is as likely as not to be a later invention. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 02:46, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

On Quirinus Dumezil is certainly right. Never mind there was or not a fusion of Latins and Sabins at the origin of Rome, his interpretation of Quirinus is the only one that makes sense. The archaic triad was a tripartiton of theological functions: regality, majesty, sovereignity (Jupiter), military force (Mars) and civil society and its activities, ie economy(agricultural plenty by then) and fertility (Quirinus). This is proved by the fact the gods of the triad were the only that had a flamen major. The most likely etimology of Quirinus, as the Iguvian Vofionus, is simply a synonim of people, folk, men as social beings (*Co-virio-, see also Curia= coviria).

I wish to point to a sentence in the article that is really puzzling : " Varro notes the Capitolium vetus an earlier cult sited on the Quirinal, devoted to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, among whom Martial makes a distinction between the old Jupiter and the new..." I am sorry and apologise to the author but I cannot make out his meaning and the relationship to Quirinus.

Moreover it is far from certain that Mars was originally a god of agricolture, if not in the negative sense, ie a god that could potentially protect or damage harvest.Aldrasto (talk) 12:14, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Festival

I'll see if I can find any more information about the Quirinalia in the books I've got for my degree. Hopefully, there will be some more information that we can use to expand the section, which seems lonely as a one-liner. 78.146.132.102 Classics (talk) 09:16, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

God of WHAT????

Do any of the ancient sources mention of what he was the god of? Why did he have a cult at all?Ericl (talk) 22:11, 28 January 2012 (UTC)