Abstract
Abstract
Honos personified male Roman political and military success and received cult temples and rituals. Frequently associated with Virtus (military prowess), Honos appeared in the third century
bce
and continued through the Imperial period in a broad range of sources (literature, inscriptions, coins, sculpture, etc.). No mythology or genealogy was connected to the cult.
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