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In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (/ p æ n /; [2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized: Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [3] He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr.
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto. A temple to Orcus may once have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome
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.
The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
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.
Dis Pater was sometimes identified with the Sabine god Soranus. [4] Julius Caesar, in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars (VI:18), states that the Gauls all claimed descent from Dis Pater. This is an example of interpretatio romana: [5] what Caesar meant was that the Gauls all claimed descent from a Gaulish god that he equated with the Roman ...
Dionysus in Greek mythology is a god of foreign origin, and while Mount Nysa is a mythological location, it is invariably set far away to the east or to the south. The Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysus places it "far from Phoenicia , near to the Egyptian stream ". [ 244 ]
However, his main symbol is the caduceus, a winged staff intertwined with two snakes copulating and carvings of the other gods. [10] In Roman mythology and religion many of Hermes's characteristics belong to Mercury, [11] a name derived from the Latin merx, meaning "merchandise," and the origin of the words "merchant" and "commerce." [3]: 178