Magna Mater
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The ancient historian Velleius Paterculus says that a theatre was built between the cave and the temple of Magna Mater, the location of which is now well known.
From The Guardian
The Queen of Heaven reminds him of Astarte or Mylitta; the Divine Mother of the Magna Mater, the “great mother” of Oriental cults.
From Project Gutenberg
Jupiter, on a cippus with a curious relief of Claudia drawing the boat with the image of the Magna Mater up the Tiber.
From Project Gutenberg
There were the gravest moral abuses connected with such worships as that of Magna Mater.
From Project Gutenberg
The temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, those of Quirinus and the Magna Mater, besides eighty-two other shrines of lesser fame, were repaired or restored by him.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
