Concordia
The Latin personification of concord or harmony, especially among Roman citizens. Shrines
were repeatedly erected to Concordia during the republican period after the cessation of civil
dissensions. The earliest was dedicated by Camillus in B.C. 367. The goddess Concordia was
also invoked, together with Ianus, Salus, and Pax, at the family festival of the
Caristia, on the 30th of March, and, with Venus and Fortuna, by married women
on the 1st of April. (See
Manes.) During the imperial
period Concordia Augusta was worshipped as the protectress of harmony, especially of
matrimonial agreement, in the emperor's household.