In ancient Roman religion, the flamen Dialis was the high priest of Jupiter. The term Dialis is related to Diespiter, an Old Latin form of the name Jupiter...

maximus is known to have substituted for the Flamen Dialis, one of the flamines maiores. The etymology of flamen remains obscure, and perhaps undecidable...

of highest prestige, followed by the flamines maiores (Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, Flamen Quirinalis) and the pontifex maximus. The rex sacrorum...

privileges, functions and taboos proper to his flamen (the flamen Dialis and his wife, the flaminica Dialis). Dumézil maintains that Jupiter is not himself...

three flamines maiores, third in order of importance after the Flamen Dialis and the Flamen Martialis. Like the other two high priests, he was subject to...

him to resign his duties, as was the case for the Flamen Dialis. At the Larentalia in April, the Flamen Martialis poured libations in honour of Acca Laurentia...

alicui apicem dialem imponere used as equivalent to the appointment of a Flamen Dialis. Sulpicius was deprived of the priesthood, only because the apex fell...

grain used was Triticum dicoccum (Emmer), not Triticum speltum.) The Flamen Dialis and pontifex maximus presided over the wedding, and ten witnesses had...

inscription found in the Tomb of the Scipios, which tells that he was flamen Dialis, the prestigious priest of Jupiter. In the second century BC, the patrician...

The Tomb of the Scipios (Latin: sepulcrum Scipionum), also called the hypogaeum Scipionum, was the common tomb of the patrician Scipio family during the...