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A Roman silver coin of 57 BC showing Venus Erycina and, on the reverse, her temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily.Image: CNG · CC BY-SA 2.5culture · Europe
Rome dedicates a temple to Venus of Eryx
On 23 April 215 BC, by the date the Romans kept as its founding day, a temple to Venus Erycina was dedicated on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. Quintus Fabius Maximus had vowed it after the crushing defeat by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene two years earlier, on the advice of the Sibylline Books. The goddess was brought from Eryx in Sicily, a sign of Rome’s search for divine help in its war with Carthage. The day was also the Vinalia, a wine festival held at the temple.
Source: Platner and Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (LacusCurtius, University of Chicago): Venus Erucina ↗
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