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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods For other uses, see Hermes (disambiguation). Hermes God of boundaries, roads, travelers, merchants, thieves, athletes, shepherds, commerce, speed, cunning, language, oratory, wit, and messages Member of the Twelve Olympians Hermes Ingenui ...
The Roman god of war is depicted as youthful and beardless, reflecting the influence of the Greek Ares. The nearest counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars , a son of Jupiter and Juno , pre-eminent among the Roman army's military gods but originally an agricultural deity. [ 134 ]
Her origin story in Greek mythology is also slightly ambiguous, with the Theogony claiming Nike to be the daughter of Styx and Pallas [10] while the Homeric Hymns describe Ares, the god of war, as being Nike's father. [11] Her Roman equivalent is the goddess Victoria.
In God of War III, Kratos forcibly takes the Boots of Hermes off the Messenger God's feet by cutting his legs off. [18] In Terraria, the player can acquire the item Hermes' Boots, which increase the players movement speed. [19] The American company Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company has a logo of the winged sandals of Mercury, Hermes’ Roman ...
[13] [14] Like most of the Olympian gods in the original God of War, Zeus first appeared as a floating translucent head, and was modeled on the typical representation of the god in Greek mythology. [15] God of War II ' s game director Cory Barlog said that for that game, they wanted to maintain Zeus' appearance from literature, but also to add ...
A theomachy is a battle among gods in Greek mythology. An early example is the Titanomachy (War of the Titans), in which the Olympian Gods fought against the preceding generation, the Titans. The war lasted ten years and resulted in the victory of the Olympians and their dominion over the world. Another case is the Gigantomachy.
A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.
In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy (/ ˌ t aɪ t ə ˈ n ɒ m ə k i /; Ancient Greek: Τιτανομαχία, romanized: Titanomakhía, lit. 'Titan-battle', Latin: Titanomachia) was a ten-year [1] series of battles fought in Ancient Thessaly, consisting of most of the Titans (the older generation of gods, based on Mount Othrys) fighting against the Olympians (the younger generations, who ...