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Venus Verticordia ("Changer of Hearts"[1]) was an aspect of the Roman goddess Venus conceived as having the power to transform dissolute desire (libido) to sexual virtue (pudicitia) in the mind of a virgin or a sexually active woman.[2] Under this title she was especially cultivated by married women, and on 1 April the Veneralia festival was celebrated in her honor.[3]
- ^ Staples 1998, p. 104.
- ^ DiLuzio 2019, p. 7, citing Valerius Maximus 8.15.12, virginum mulierque mens a libidine ad pudicitiam.
- ^ Kiefer 1934, p. 125.