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The Greek pantheon of gods included mortal-born heroes and heroines who were elevated to godhood through a process which the Greeks termed apotheosis. [1] Some of these received the privilege as a reward for their helpfulness to mankind example: Heracles, Asclepius and Aristaeus, others through marriage to gods, example: Ariadne, Tithonus and Psyche, and some by luck or pure chance example ...
Some late Roman and Greek poetry and mythography identifies him as a sun-god, equivalent to Roman Sol and Greek Helios. [2] Ares (Ἄρης, Árēs) God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence. The son of Zeus and Hera, he was depicted as a beardless youth, either nude with a helmet and spear or sword, or as an armed warrior.
The Greeks identified Imhotep with their own divine healer and physician, Asclepios (which also healed people in their dreams). [15] Queen Dido of Carthage: 814 BCE Founder and first queen of Carthage, after her death, she was deified by her people with the name of Tanit and assimilated to the Great Goddess Astarte (Roman Juno). [16]
Apotheosis of Venice (1585) by Paolo Veronese, a ceiling in the Doge's Palace The Apotheosis of Cornelis de Witt, with the Raid on Chatham in the Background.. Apotheosis (from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from ἀποθεόω / ἀποθεῶ (apotheóō/apotheô) 'to deify'), also called divinization or deification (from Latin deificatio 'making divine'), is the ...
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [2] They were called Olympians because, according to tradition, they resided on Mount ...
List of deified people in Greek mythology This page was last edited on 24 August 2024, at 08:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Deities associated with Greek mythology. History portal; Ancient Greece portal; ... Deified Greek people (1 C, 5 P) Demigods in classical mythology (20 C, 27 P) E.
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