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Mesopotamian equivalent. Dumuzid. In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous and considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity. The myth goes that Adonis was gored by a ...
This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/ daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs /; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness ...
Persephone and Dionysos. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th–3rd century B.C. Marble. Hermitage.. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/ p ər ˈ s ɛ f ə n iː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē, classical pronunciation: [per.se.pʰó.nɛː]), also called Kore (/ ˈ k ɔːr iː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit.
Frazer and others also saw Tammuz's Greek equivalent Adonis as a "dying-and-rising god", [205] [204] [220] despite the fact that he is never described as rising from the dead in any extant Greco-Roman writings [221] and the only possible allusions to his supposed resurrection come from late, highly ambiguous statements made by Christian authors.
Attis. Statue of a reclining Attis at the Shrine of Attis in Ostia Antica near Rome. Attis (/ ˈætɪs /; Greek: Ἄττις, also Ἄτυς, Ἄττυς, Ἄττης) [2] was the consort of Cybele, in Phrygian and Greek mythology. [a] His priests were eunuchs, the Galli, as explained by origin myths pertaining to Attis castrating himself.
Eros and his Roman equivalent Cupid, are also known, in art tradition, as a Putto. The Putto's iconography seemed to have, later, influenced the figure known as a Cherub . The Putti (plural of Putto) and the Cherubim (plural of Cherub) can be found throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Christian art .
This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Astarte (/ əˈstɑːrtiː /; Ἀστάρτη, Astartē) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.
Hera was the tutelary goddess of Argos and it is possible that she had Mycenean origin. [ 1 ] Martin P. Nilsson suggested that Hera is mainly the "Argeiē" (Ἀργείη), a name given by Homer [ 51 ] which describes her not as Greek, but as an Argive goddess. She is the protectress of the citadel. [ 52 ]