Concordia (mythology)

Concordia is the personification of harmony in Roman mythology ( corresponding to the Homonoia in Greek mythology ). The Roman conception according promotes and maintains them concord and unity of the citizens of Rome. It was presented with the attributes of cornucopia and patera intertwined hands.

Concordia is one of the personified by the Romans ancient Roman virtue terms, as well as Fides ( fidelity ), Spes (Hope), Pudicitia ( chastity ), Justitia (Justice ), Virtus ( Virtue), Pax (Peace), Libertas ( freedom ), Honos ( honor) or Felicitas (happiness ). Originally, the ancient Roman deities were not worshiped in pictures or statues. First of the Greeks and Etruscans, the idea of ​​a world of gods in human form has been adopted.

The Concordia was a temple in the northwest of the Roman Forum in Rome, consecrated, who was at the foot of the Capitol. Every year on 16 January, she was reminded honor in a fixed- at the dedication of the temple, which was built for the plebeians and patricians reconciliation after the end of the stands fighting in 367 BC.