Fescennia

Fescennia
An ancient Etruscan town, best known for the "Fescennine Verses," a tradition of scurrilous songs performed on special occasions.

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  • Fescennia — was an ancient city of Etruscan origin, which is probably to be placed immediately to the north of the modern Corchiano, 6 miles North West of Civita Castellana. The Via Amerina traverses it. At the Riserva S. Silvestro, walls exist. At Corchiano …   Wikipedia

  • Fescennia — était une ancienne cité d origine étrusque, probablement située au nord de l actuelle Corchiano, à 10 km environ au nord ouest de Civita Castellana, en Italie centrale. La via Amerina la traverse. Outre un site propice à une installation antique …   Wikipédia en Français

  • FESCENNIA vel FESCENNIUM — oppid. Hetruriae. Plin. l. 3. c. 5. Virg. Aen. l. 7. v. 695. Hi Fescenninas acies, aequosque Faliscos, Hi Soractis habent arces. In hoc oppido carminis quoddam genus, omni obscenitate opprobrioqueve plenum inventum putatur, quod a loco dictum est …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • fescennin — ● fescennin, fescennine adjectif (latin fescenninus, de Fescennia, nom propre) Vers fescennins, chants fescennins, vers, poèmes satiriques latins. (Initialement déclamés lors des moissons ou des vendanges, ils avaient une tradition d obscénité… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Fescennine — Fes cen*nine, a. [L. Fescenninus, fr. Fescennia, a city of Etruria.] Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. n. A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fescennine — ● fescennin, fescennine adjectif (latin fescenninus, de Fescennia, nom propre) Vers fescennins, chants fescennins, vers, poèmes satiriques latins. (Initialement déclamés lors des moissons ou des vendanges, ils avaient une tradition d obscénité… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Mezentius — In Roman mythology, Mezentius was an Etruscan king, and father of Lausus. Sent into exile because of his cruelty, he moved to Latium. He reveled in bloodshed and was overwhelmingly savage on the battlefield, but more significantly to a Roman… …   Wikipedia

  • Etruscan mythology — Etruscan mural of the God Typhon, from Tarquinia …   Wikipedia

  • Haruspex — Etruscan inscriptions on the bronze sheep s liver of Piacenza In Roman and Etruscan religious practice, a haruspex (plural haruspices; Latin auspex, plural auspices) was a man trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy, hepatoscopy …   Wikipedia

  • Civita di Bagnoregio — Panorama of Civita di Bagnoregio …   Wikipedia

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