Roman Tours are organising this year’s Minerva Festival to be held on Sunday 31st May 2009; starting at 11am through to 5pm.
Chester UK is home to the only remaining shrine, still at its original site, dedicated to the goddess Minerva and located in the UK. The city is the proud host of an annual festival devoted to Minerva.
Roman Tours Ltd have organised a military parade to the site of the shrine in Edgar’s Field with further events to enjoy, free of charge, at the Grosvenor Museum.
The Parade will start from the Cross, at 12 noon, marching through the city of Chester to Edgar’s Field. Experience the highlight of the Minerva Festival with the Roman Tours Ltd recreation of a dedication to Minerva. This will be held at 3pm at the shrine.
See Chester’s Roman history come alive with dancers and ancient crafts for all the family to enjoy.
Minerva is the name the Romans gave to the Athena: Greek virgin goddess of poetry, warriors, crafts, weaving, medicine, inventor of music as well as wisdom and commerce.
In Greek mythology Athena is hailed as the ‘shrewd companion of heroes and the goddess of heroic endeavour’.
The festival of Minerva was celebrated by the Romans from 19th to 23rd March; with 19th March being the Quinquatiria Festival, or ‘fifth day after the Ides’.
Romans worshipped Minerva, the daughter of Jupiter, in all her different goddess forms and as part of the Capitoline Triad with the addition of Jupiter and Juno.
You can visit the Minerva Shrine at Edgar’s Field Park in Handbridge, Chester any day of the year.
The Grosvenor Museum also contains a cast of the Minerva Shrine as part of their collection of Roman tombstones, the largest collection in any single exhibition in Britain.
Roman Tours Ltd has been established since 1997 and thoroughly embraces the intriguing Roman history of the city of Chester.
It is the pleasure of Roman Tours to bring to life, with professional and historical accuracy, the events of Roman Chester in Chester and around the northwest of England.
Visit Roman Tours Ltd website – and find out more about fantastic re-enactment events at the Chester Roman Amphitheatre.
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