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A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.
This category contains articles of popular culture items whose main elements were directly or highly influenced by the stories of classical mythology See also: Category:Works based on classical mythology
Edith Hamilton's Mythology has been a major channel for English speakers to learn classical Greek and Roman mythology (from Myth) Image 59 Holy Robe in Trier (from List of mythological objects ) Image 60 Rectangular tablets passed down by the Hand of God in the 10th century Byzantine Leo Bible (from List of mythological objects )
The first season of the Netflix show was released in August 2024 and features Jeff Goldblum as a paranoid and spiteful Zeus who is fearful that a prophecy about his downfall is coming to fruition ...
The game Jotun uses the mythology as a setting, with the protagonist making its way through various realms in order to fight the gigantic jötunn. The Bayonetta franchise makes multiple references to Norse mythology. The primary antagonist of the first title is named Balder, and the creator god of myth is referred to as Aesir.
Hercules (as Heracles) is a hero character in Age of Mythology (2002) and Age of Empires: Mythologies (2008) for the Nintendo DS. In the Japanese visual novel Fate/stay night (2004) as well as its anime adaptation, Heracles appears as the Berserker servant (voiced by Tadahisa Saizen), one of seven heroic spirits summoned to fight in the Holy ...
Typhon mythology is part of the Greek succession myth, which explained how Zeus came to rule the gods. Typhon's story is also connected with that of Python (the serpent killed by Apollo), and both stories probably derived from several Near Eastern antecedents. Typhon was (from c. 500 BC) also identified with the Egyptian god of destruction Set.
The river gods were the 3000 sons of the great earth-encircling river Oceanus and his wife Tethys and the brothers of the Oceanids. [1] They were also the fathers of the Naiads [citation needed] and Potamides. [2]