page_title: Quintus Minucius Rufus
section_title: Praetorship in Locri
hierarchical_section_title: Quintus Minucius Rufus / Praetorship in Locri
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Pinax von Persephone und Hades auf dem Thron. Gefunden im Persephoneheiligtum von Locri im Ortsteil Mannella. Locri war Teil der Magna Graecia und liegt am Ionischen Meer in Kalabrien in Italien. English: Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne. Found in the holy shrine of Persephone at Locri in the district Mannella. Locri was part of Magna Graecia and is situated on the coast of the Ionian Sea in Calabria in Italy. Source: Picture taken by myself in the Museo Nazionale Archeologico at Reggio Di Calabria in Italy, September 2002. See other Pinakes from Locri Eros Hermes And Aphrodite Persephone Opens Likon Mystikon Man With Horse
context_page_description: Quintus Minucius Rufus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 197 BC.
context_section_description: As praetor in 200, Minucius was assigned to Bruttium (modern-day Calabria), where he investigated thefts from the temple of Proserpina at Locri. His imperium was prorogued as propraetor into 199 so he could continue to look into the sacrilege. The year was plagued by bad omens; Minucius reported two from his province, a foal born with five feet, and three chickens born with three feet each.
  In his study of the praetorship during the Republic, T. Corey Brennan has speculated that the prosecution of sacrilege at Bruttium may have been a useful way to out and suppress the "dissident element" in the region; the stated task of Minucius's prorogation was "to complete inquiries into coniurationes among the Bruttii." The word coniuratio during this period carried multiple connotations; literally a "swearing together" or "oath," it could refer both to a ritualized oath-taking and to a political conspiracy. The suppression of the Bacchanalia thirteen years later, recorded by Livy and a bronze tablet inscribed with the senate's decree, was also described as a series of coniurationes, and demonstrates at least a perceived connection between political dissent and private religious practices. Those whom Minucius arrested at Bruttium for sacrilege were sent to Rome, then returned to Locri with instructions from the senate that they restore the funds taken from the shrine.
caption: A pinax from Locri depicting Persephone (Roman Proserpina) and Hades (Roman Pluto) enthroned[4]
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