Talk:Floralia

message: The "festival" at Connecticut College has little to do with the original event, and should be considered insignificant and probably be removed.  For comparison, there used to be a page about Brown University's "SexPowerGod" party, but since there are similar parties at other schools, it is not especially noteworthy.  In this case, nearly every university has some sort of Spring Weekend festivities, and calling it "Floralia" or not makes no difference.
cleanup is needed. a mention of the modern party of the same name probably wouldn't be a bad thing but the sophomoric treatment it currently enjoys is too much. However, I don't know anything about either topic so I've added a cleanup tag. Jasongetsdown 19:11, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the college Floralia should be a separate page linked from this one. Alpheus (talk) 04:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: Many sources give April 28, not 27, as the commencement of Floralia. Alpheus (talk) 04:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: hi (2012-12-27) to Cynwolfe
the whole point of interest of florifertum is the self contained contradiction in Festus's definition "florifertum" of "spicae"; that's what K.Latte, P.Wissowa etc try to explain, with of course a range of different views given the thinness of inputs; Françoise-Hélène Massa-Pailrault's article "Lasa Vecu-Lasa Vecuvia" is actually for 60% of its content a lengthy discussion of precisely that paradox and ends up suggesting the Mars connection; no personal editing at all here
my "feeling" is that somehow this "paradoxical" status of the "source"'s statement should be clearly highlighted as such, but I am not sure just how to do it; however the current reading as such indeed much improves the perception of underlying complexity
regards
Robiquetgobley (talk) 09:02, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Festus says only Florifertum dictum, quod eo die spicae feruntur ad sacrarium ("The Florifertum is so called because on this day the spicae are carried to the sacrarium"), without reference to any deity or calendar date.  I'd need to look back over terminology pertaining to plant growth, but I seem to recall that "flower(ing)" is used for a certain point in the development of wheat. Ovid gives Flora an advisory role in the birth of Mars, but the passage from the Fasti in which the cultivator of Juno Lucina is told to bring flowers (ferte … flores) is placed in March, so while it raises theological questions about the relation of goddesses of birth and of vegetative growth, without having time to examine your abundance of sources I'm not sure how it relates to the Floralia here. I wasn't disputing anything; I just found the contribution a little unclear, and especially in need of clarification since most readers will be unfamiliar with the agricultural aspects of Mars. In an encyclopedia article for a general readership, I'm afraid my approach is usually not to include overly detailed, complex scholarly arguments unless the nature of the scholarly question can be expressed in a way that's usefully clear. Please do correct any errors I inadvertently introduced, and feel free to elaborate. Cynwolfe (talk) 17:37, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2012-12-27