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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 ...
Caelus and Dies were in this tradition the parents of Mercury. [8] With Trivia, Caelus was the father of the distinctively Roman god Janus, as well as of Saturn and Ops. [9] Caelus was also the father of one of the three Jupiters, the fathers of the other two being Aether and Saturn instead. [10]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 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 ...
The 19th-century scholar Georg Wissowa [18] thought that the Romans distinguished two classes of gods, the di indigetes and the di novensides or novensiles: the indigetes were the original gods of the Roman state, their names and nature indicated by the titles of the earliest priests and by the fixed festivals of the calendar, with 30 such gods ...
Roman religious law required that the libations offered to the gods in their official cults should be vinum inferum, a strong wine of pure vintage, also known as temetum. It was made from the best of the crop, selected and pressed under the patronage of Rome's sovereign deity Jupiter and ritually purified by his flamen (senior priest). Liber's ...
The gods who encourage speech, however, are male. [83] The ability to speak well was a defining characteristic of the elite citizen. Although women were admired for speaking persuasively, [84] oratory was regarded as a masculine pursuit essential to public life. [85] Head of a child from the Antonine era Roman boy wrapped in his cloak (1st ...
With Manto, Tiberinus was the father of Ocnus. [ 2 ] According to Livy , author of Ab Urbe Condita , the first name of the river Tiber was Albula, and Tiberinus was one of the kings of Alba Longa , who drowned in crossing this river, and gave the river his name.
Romulus and Remus were born in Alba Longa, one of the many ancient Latin cities near the Seven hills of Rome.Their mother Rhea Silvia, also known as Ilia, [2] was a Vestal Virgin and the daughter of former king Numitor, who had been displaced by his brother Amulius.