Volupia

The personification of sensual pleasure among the Romans, who was honored with a temple near the Porta Romanula.

She is also called Voluptas.1

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References

Notes

  1. Cicero. On the Nature of the Gods ii, 23.

Sources

  • Augustine. City of God iv, 8.
  • Macrobius. Saturnalia i, 10.
  • Pliny the Elder. Epistles viii, 20; Naturalis Historia iii, 5.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Varro. On the Latin Language v, 164.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.