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Roman statue of the infant Hercules strangling a snake. Hercules, god of strength, whose worship was derived from the Greek hero Heracles but took on a distinctly Roman character. Hermaphroditus, an androgynous Greek god whose mythology was imported into Latin literature. Honos, a divine personification of honor. Hora, the wife of Quirinus.
e. Roman mythologyis the body of mythsof ancient Romeas represented in the literatureand visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period.
Silvanus (/ sɪlˈveɪnəs /; [1] meaning "of the woods" in Latin) was a Roman tutelary deity of woods and uncultivated lands. As protector of the forest (sylvestris deus), he especially presided over plantations and delighted in trees growing wild. [2][3][4][5] He is also described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, protecting ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Personifications in Roman mythology (5 C, ... List of Roman birth and childhood deities; A.
Contents. List of Roman birth and childhood deities. "Paventia", "Cunina", and "Nundina" redirect here. For the genus of moth, see Paventia (moth). For the siphonophore genus, see Cunina (genus). For the market days of the Roman calendar, see Nundinae. In ancient Roman religion, birth and childhood deities were thought to care for every aspect ...
Caelus. Caelus or Coelus (/ ˈsiːləs /; SEE-ləs) was a primordial god of the sky in Roman mythology and theology, iconography, and literature (compare caelum, the Latin word for "sky" or "heaven", hence English "celestial"). The deity's name usually appears in masculine grammatical form when he is conceived of as a male generative force.
beard, religious and military clothing. Gender. male. Festivals. Quirinalia. Consort. Hersilia-Hora. In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus (/ kwɪˈraɪnəs / kwi-RY-nəs, [ 2 ]Latin: [kᶣɪˈriːnʊs]) is an early god of the Roman state. In Augustan Rome, Quirinus was also an epithet of Janus, as Janus Quirinus.
Decline. v. t. e. The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices[ 1 ]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome. Their gilt statues stood in the Roman Forum, and later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium.