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A. Audin connects the figure of Janus to Culśans and Turms (Etruscan rendering of Hermes, the Greek god mediator between the different worlds, brought by the Etruscan from the Aegean Sea), considering these last two Etruscan deities as the same. [249] This interpretation would then identify Janus with Greek god Hermes.
In Roman mythology and religion, Quirinus (/ k w ɪ ˈ r aɪ n ə s / 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. [3]
Two-faced god of doors and doorways, corresponding to the two-faced Roman god Janus. Cul is Etruscan for "door." [16] [circular reference] Eita: Greek Hades seen on the Golini Tomb with Persephone (here Phersipnei) [17] See Aita above Enie: Greek Enyo, one of the Graeae. [18] Eris: The goddess Eris. [19] Erus: The god Eros. [19] Esplace: The ...
Janus, dual-faced god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings, for whom January is named; Mercury, messenger god and psychopomp; equivalent to the Greek Hermes and shares several of his functions, such as being a god of commerce, travelers, merchants, and thieves; Portunus, god of keys, doors, and livestock
Janus is a masculine given name of Latin origin. Janus is the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages and endings. The name has also been used as a Latinisation of Jan or Johannes .
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Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.
Faunus and Daphnis practising the Pan flute (Roman copy of Greek original). In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus [ˈfau̯nʊs] was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a horned god.