Bona Dea
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bona Dea
< Latin: literally, (the) Good Goddess
Example Sentences
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Caesar’s second wife, Pompeia, was in charge of a rite for the goddess Bona Dea, a ceremony for women only, performed in Caesar’s house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2018
The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is the mother of the Gaelic Gods, as Bona Dea of the Romans.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Macleod, Fiona
Such a goddess, at any rate, was the Bona Dea; and to such a goddess we may readily believe would be ascribed the privilege of cutting wood.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney
I should regard my self as a second Clodius intruding on the Mysterious Rites of the Bona Dea, and should apprehend being Demolished as much as the Prude.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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