enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Apollo - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo

    Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. [2] As the patron deity of Delphi (Apollo Pythios), Apollo is an oracular god—the prophetic deity of the Delphic Oracle and also the deity of ritual purification. His oracles were often consulted for guidance in various matters.

  3. Greek city-state patron gods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_city-state_patron_gods

    19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...

  4. Temple of Apollo Palatinus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_Palatinus

    On the temple's doors, a scene depicting the killing of the children of Niobe by Apollo and Diana was rendered in ivory, [98] while the other door depicted the defeat of the Celtic attack on the Oracle of Delphi, of which Apollo was the patron god, in 281 BCE. [7]

  5. List of art deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_art_deities

    Hades, god of the Underworld, one of the big three; Demeter, goddess of agriculture; Artemis, goddess of the moon, archery and virginity; Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, fertility and love; Eros, god of love (greek cupid) Muses. Calliope, goddess of epic poetry; Clio, goddess of history; Erato, goddess of erotic poetry; Euterpe, goddess of lyric ...

  6. List of Mycenaean deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mycenaean_deities

    Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.

  7. List of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological...

    God of moving unseen and The father of the nymph Aura by Periboea: Λητώ (Lētṓ) Leto: Goddess of motherhood and mother of the twin Olympians, Artemis and Apollo. Μενοίτιος (Menoítios) Menoetius: God of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality. Killed by Zeus. Μῆτις (Mē̂tis) Metis

  8. List of knowledge deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knowledge_deities

    He is the patron saint of the interworld — both Light and Darkness are subject to him, he is also called Prophetic, Wise, because in the three worlds he manifests his power, he is the one who knows light and darkness, sets the energy of the world in motion, rotates the Universe, he is a permanent guardian on the border of the worlds, a ...

  9. Agyieus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agyieus

    Illustration of a coin of Apollo Agyieus from Ambracia, depicting the conical representation of the god.. Agyieus (Ancient Greek: Ἀγυιεύς, romanized: Aguieus means 'he of the street' [1]) was an epithet of the Greek god Apollo describing him as the protector of the streets, public places, and the entrances to homes. [2]