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Victoria (or Nike) on a fresco from Pompeii, Neronian era. In ancient Roman religion Victoria was the deified personification of victory. She first appeared during the first Punic War, seemingly as a Romanised re-naming of Nike, the goddess of victory associated with Rome's Greek allies in the Greek mainland and in Magna Graecia.
"Nerthus" on her cart - by Emil Doepler, 1905. In Germanic paganism, Nerthus is a goddess associated with a ceremonial wagon procession. Nerthus is attested by first century A.D. Roman historian Tacitus in his ethnographic work Germania [1] as a "Mother Earth".
Necessitas, goddess of destiny, the Roman equivalent of Ananke. Nemesis, goddess of revenge , adopted as an Imperial deity of retribution. Neptune, god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses, and one of the Dii Consentes. Greek equivalent is Poseidon. Nerio, ancient war goddess and the personification of valor. The consort of Mars.
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and 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.
Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philosophy and political thought , is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later, including modern, Western culture . [ 1 ]
Denarius of L. Mussidius Longus (42 BC) showing Concordia on the obverse, and two statues within the balustrade of the shrine of Venus Cloacina on the reverse [1]. Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome.
Apollodorus, The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics), translated by Robin Hard, Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-19-283924-1; Graves, Robert, (1955) 1960. The Greek Myths; D'Europe à l'Europe, I. Le mythe d'Europe dans l'art et la culture de l'antiquité au XVIIIe s.
The Pergamene bequest became the new Roman province of Asia, and Roma's cult spread rapidly within it. [10] In contrast to her putative "Amazonian" Roman original, Greek coinage reduces the ferocity of her image, and depicts her in the "dignified and rather severe style" of a Greek goddess, often wearing a mural crown, or sometimes a Phrygian ...