Talk:Larunda

Redundancy

Larunda and Dea Tacita are separate entries referring to the same mythological entity by two of her names 52.124.121.16 (talk) 05:58, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

"Little, late, and poetic"

That was a finely executed tricolon in the article, but I quibble with describing any work by Ovid as "late", since he's smack in the middle of the Roman era. Lactantius and Macrobius, they be late. Larunda and the goddesses she's cross-identified with seem to be distinctly Italic/Roman with possibly Etruscan connections, so no tradition of Greek mythography that would be centuries earlier is to be expected. But if Ovid is the first extant source for Larunda, might that indicate he's actually early, not late? That is, the Ovidian myth-making on this topic may be a peculiarly Augustan combination of religious revivalism and innovation, or draw on Varro in the immediately preceding generation. Elaborated on the basis of scant literature, like the list of divine names kept by the priests. Second, "poetic" is not a term that would signal some kind of unreliability to the Greeks and Romans, since Hesiod was a poet, and it was not unusual for religious knowledge in the form of myth to be preserved in verse rather than prose. So the tone seemed off. The phrase was not closely cited, so I've removed it, despite its charm. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:41, 8 January 2026 (UTC)