Talk:Edesia

Planned redirect
This topic has been created in good faith, along with a companion piece on Bibesia (more usually named Potina). 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 or so, and an RS or two. I've removed the material generated from non RS and antiquated sources, and added a reliable source; we're left with a single line. Google and Google Scholar searches yield virtually nothing to justify separate articles on either goddess. I suggest that these two article pages become redirects to the relevant section in the List of Roman birth and childhood deities. Haploidavey (talk) 09:40, 30 May 2018 (UTC)