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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...
Tamatoa II, king of Raiatea and grandfather of Tamatoa III; Tamatoa III (c. 1757 – 1831), king of Raiatea from 1820 to 1831; Tamatoa IV (1797–1857), king of Raiatea from 1831 to 1857; Tamatoa V (1842–1881), king of Raiatea and Taha'a from 1857 to 1871 (born Tamatoa-a-tu Pōmare) Tamatoa VI (1853–1905), king of Raiatea and Taha'a from ...
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 ...
The association between the owl and the goddess continued through Minerva in Roman mythology, although the latter sometimes simply adopts it as a sacred or favorite bird.. For example, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Corone the crow complains that her spot as the goddess' sacred bird is occupied by the owl, which in that particular story turns out to be Nyctimene, a cursed daughter of Epopeus, king ...
Birds in ancient Rome and Greece were eaten as food. Flamingo tongues were highly valuable in ancient Rome. Emperors would collect them and serve them at feasts. [59] The Hēliou Zōön, or "creature of the sun" was an ancient Greek term for a species of bird, which was likely the Greater Flamingo or the Phoenix. [60]
The Decapoda or decapods (lit. ' ten-footed ') is a large order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns. Most decapods are scavengers. The order is estimated to contain nearly 15,000 extant species in around 2,700 genera, with around 3,300 fossil species. [1]
The earliest, more-or-less unequivocal coin identification of Roma is a silver stater of c. 275 BC issued by Rome's ethnically Greek allies at Locri, on the Italian peninsula. It shows an enthroned woman with shield and other war-gear, clearly labelled as Roma.
To the ancients in Egypt, Greece and Rome, the frog was a symbol of fertility, and in Egypt actually the object of worship. [5] A plague of frogs is seen as a punishment in the Old Testament of the Bible. A frog being eaten by King Stork, by Milo Winter to illustrate a 1919 Aesop anthology