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Roman counterpart of the Greek god Hermes. Minerva, goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industries and trades, and one of the Dii Consentes. Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Athena. Mithras, god worshipped in the Roman empire; popular with soldiers. Molae, daughters of Mars, probably goddesses of grinding of the grain.
See also Wikipedia's categories of Greek goddesses, Greek gods, and Roman gods. For a list of Goddesses with brief descriptions, ... Pages in category "Roman goddesses"
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.
A beauty deity is a god or (usually) goddess associated with the concept of beauty. Classic examples in the Western culture are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart, Venus. The following is a list of beauty deities across different cultures. For some deities, beauty is only one of several aspects they represent, or a lesser one.
Toggle Greek mythology subsection. 21.1 Cappadocian. ... 41 Roman mythology. 42 Slavic mythology. ... This is a list of goddesses, ...
This is a list of famous pairs in mythology: Lovers. Abhimanyu and Uttara ... Venus and Adonis (Greek - Roman) Vishnu and Lakshmi ; Yudhishthira and Draupadi ...
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]
The names of the three Parcae are: Nona (Greek equivalent Clotho), who spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle; [6] Decima (Greek Lachesis), who measured the thread of life with her rod; [6] Morta (Greek Atropos), who cut the thread of life and chose the manner of a person's death. [7] [8] [9]