Brill’s New Pauly

Get access
Search Results: | 6 of 6 | Next

Fides
(1,654 words)

[German version]

I. Religion

F. is the cultically venerated personification of faith and veracity [1]. According to Varro (Ling. 5,74), she had been adopted in Rome from the Sabini; her cult is still in evidence at the end of the 2nd cent. AD (Tert. Apol. 24,5). F. is depicted as a woman, her head adorned with a garland or veil, dressed in a  chitṓn and péplos [2]. She appears frequently in poetry, but rarely in prose. She was considered to be a very ancient deity (Sil. Pun. 1,329f.; 2,484ff.) and therefore referred to as cana (Verg. Aen. 1,292…

Cite this page
Prescendi, Francesca (Geneva), Schiemann, Gottfried (Tübingen) and Büchli, Jörg (Zürich), “Fides”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e411430>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



▲   Back to top   ▲