Female cults in Catania in Greek and Roman times: from Demeter to Isis
Journal title ARCHIVIO STORICO PER LA SICILIA ORIENTALE
Author/s Maria Teresa Magro
Publishing Year 2026 Issue 2025/1-2
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 33-51 File size 572 KB
DOI 10.3280/ASSO2025-001004
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The cult of Demeter was widespread in Sicily in the Greek age and we know many of the sanctuaries from an authoritative source, Cicero, who in the first century BC accuses in a famous trial Verre, governor sent by the Romans to Sicily, of having plundered many sanctuaries and temples of the riches they contained. One of the most important sanctuaries described by Cicero was in Catania, the existence of which was unknown until the discovery in 1930 in Piazza Nicolella in Catania, during the work of arranging a building, of a relief with a demetric scene, used as a filling material. The cult of Demeter was later supplanted in Roman times with the figure of the goddess Isis, to whom a temple found in the nineteenth century in Via Vittorio Emanuele was probably dedicated.
Keywords: archaeology, cults, Greek Age, Catania, Demeter, Isis
Maria Teresa Magro, I culti femminili a Catania in età greca e romana: da Demetra a Iside in "ARCHIVIO STORICO PER LA SICILIA ORIENTALE" 1-2/2025, pp 33-51, DOI: 10.3280/ASSO2025-001004