{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_ITA_FLORA", "Flora", null, "Italic/Sabine", "deity / goddess of flowering plants and spring", "deity", "flowers; spring; vegetation; bloom; Floralia; Sabine origin; Chloris parallel; gardens; fertility", null, null, null, "A", null, null, null, null, null, "Flora is an ancient Italian goddess of flowering plants, spring vegetation, and the season of bloom (ver), whose cult in Rome is attested from the earliest period of the Republic: she had a flamen (the flamen Floralis, one of the fifteen flamines of archaic Rome) assigned to her cult, which is strong evidence of very high antiquity. The Floralia (28 April \u2013 3 May) was her chief festival, an unusually joyful, loosely ordered celebration involving theatrical performances and the scattering of beans, lupins, and vetches. Flora's Sabine origin is implied by Varro (LL 5.74) who notes that the Sabine word for \"Flower\" was the basis of her name. Ovid (Fasti 5.195-372) presents the fullest account of her mythology: in a dialogue with the goddess, Ovid learns that Flora was originally the Greek nymph Chloris (\u03a7\u03bb\u03c9\u03c1\u03af\u03c2, \"Green/Verdant\"), beloved of Zephyrus (the west wind), who transformed her and gave her dominion over flowers as a wedding gift. She claims to have caused the pregnancy of Juno that produced Mars (by giving Juno a flower), and to have transformed the blood of Hyacinthus and the body of Narcissus into flowers. This makes Flora/Chloris a figure at the productive intersection of Greek and Italic tradition \u2014 her Sabine/Italic name and ancient Roman cult are mapped onto the Greek figure of Chloris. The explicit Chloris identification in Ovid (Fasti 5.195: \"Chloris eram\") makes Flora the clearest example in Roman religion of an Italic nature deity explained through a Greek mythological counterpart. Wissowa (1912) pp. 196-198.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_ITA_FLORA"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6837009998198482, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}