Talk:Bibesia

Planned redirect

Bibesia (more usually named Potina) has been created along with a companion piece on Edesia. Both articles contain a deal of misinformation, due to their reliance on Victorian (and even Georgian) works, and various unreliable, non-scholarly web resources. Both topics are already covered in their proper context at the List of Roman birth and childhood deities, a List-article. The existence of these two goddesses is attested by a single primary source, St Augustine's Civitatis Dei. A recent (1998) scholarly translation/edition, published by the eminently respectable Cambridge University Press, names them Potina, goddess of drink (potio), and Educa, goddess of food (esca). Augustine says very little else about them. He doesn't associate them with feasts, wine, or meat; just with eating and drinking in the context of child-rearing. See this link. In the List, each is covered by a single line, and an RS or two. Google and Google Scholar searches yield virtually nothing to justify separate articles on either goddess. I've removed the unreliable/antiquated sources and associated text, and each article is now a single line, cited to the single primary source; the same, more or less, as in the List. I suggest that these two article pages become redirects to the relevant section in the List of Roman birth and childhood deities. Haploidavey (talk) 09:47, 30 May 2018 (UTC)