Carmenta

Carmenta (also Carmentis ) was the goddess of prophecy and the birth of the Romans. Carmenta was also known under the name Nicostrata (Greek Νικοστράτε Niko rate ). She was both mother and wife of Evander. Your devoted Roman women in the 11th and 15th of January, the festival Carmen Talia. Carmenta - Nicostrata is said to have ascended with Evander Palatine. Here, she had the vision of the future city of Rome. There, near the after her called Carmentalischen gate ( Porta Carmentalis ) they had their ancient altar was sacrificed to the.

In the late Roman and late antique Hellenistic literature Nicostrata the invention of the 16 buchstabigen Latin Alphabeths was attributed. For the first time we find this information at the beginning of the second century after the era. About Isidore of Seville, this topic was varied in the medieval and early modern canon of education and continued to the liberal arts. Giovanni Boccaccio took on this myth in his compilation of female biographies mulieribus De claris, also north to 1474 enjoyed after its first edition by Johann Zainer in Ulm in the Alps great popularity. The most comprehensive interpretation took Gregor Reisch ago in his 1503 woodcut by Johann Schott in Freiburg im Breisgau published Margarita philosophica. Nicostrata opens up a boy by learning the alphabet using the letter chart the tower of science. The key ( symbol of Congruitas ) taps the Latin school in the lowest two storeys. Here bring Donatus and Priscian grammar and vocabulary with. In the floors above the sciences which follow on to theology or metaphysics is crowning