Roma (mythology)

In the Roman Empire Roma was a deity, who were dedicated to some temples and holy places. Roma was a personification of the Roman state or the city of Rome.

Roma 269 BC for the first time on coins from Rome mentioned (see Ace (unit) ) and 204 BC on Roman coins of Locri in Calabria, which it is inferred that the non- Roman population may have Roma also revered religious. In fact, the first documented cults safe for Roma can be found in the Greek world. In this context fits her (195 BC), a temple was built in Smyrna. It is also reported by Roma cults at Ephesus, Sardis and Delos.

Roma was a goddess whose worship as " Princeps Civitatis " (first among the cities ) by Augustus was made as part of a propaganda campaign in the west of the Roman Empire officially. He bestowed by the Roman state concept religious consecration, had a number of temples of Rome and Augustus with his Res Gestae build and install inscriptions, which should therefore popularize the new goddess. Among other things, in Lugdunum (now Lyon) him and Roma was built, a common altar.

From 121-136 Roma was built under Emperor Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Emperor together with the goddess Venus on the Via Sacra in Rome the hitherto largest Roman temple. This Roma was taken under the Roman state gods.