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At least some of the Raeti tribes (those in northeastern Italy) probably continued to speak the Raetian language as late as the 3rd century AD. Others (those in Switzerland) were probably Celtic -speaking by the era of the Roman emperor Augustus (ruled 30 BC – AD 14).
Rhaetic or Raetic (/ ˈ r iː t ɪ k /), also known as Rhaetian, was a Tyrsenian language spoken in the ancient region of Rhaetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times.
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Reitia (Venetic: 𐌓𐌄:𐌉:𐌕𐌉:𐌀) is a goddess, one of the best known deities of the Adriatic Veneti of northeastern Italy. While her place in the Venetic pantheon cannot be known for certain, the importance of her cult to Venetic society is well attested in archaeological finds.
This article shows how these texts function as writing exercises — some of the earliest evidence of elementary education methods in Italy. Many of the votives were dedicated by women, and this article argues that women were active participants in literacy and education in this period.
- Katherine McDonald
- 2019
This article examines the Venetic dedications to the goddess Reitia at the Este-Baratella sanctuary as evidence for elementary education in Italy in the fourth to second centuries B.C. These texts appear on dedicatory bronze writing implements — speci cally, writing-tablets and styluses — inscribed with imitations of learners’ exercises (or
The name Reitia itself speaks to the act of writing, from the root *rei (Nardi, 2007). Linguists have also proposed the root *rekt for childbirth, or *reito for river (Fossati, 2015). In addition, Her epithet Pora may relate to childbirth or newborns, seen in the Latin paro and pario (Fossati, 2015).
Feb 25, 2022 · The pre-Roman Italic people known as Veneti of northeast Italy were skilled weapons, jewelry, and ceramic makers, and worshipped the nature goddess Pora Reitia.
