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8 unusual facts about Roman mythology


Battle of Drepana

If the chickens accepted the offered grain, then the Roman gods would be favourable to the battle.

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This process is often called sulfur curing, and the term vulcanization comes from Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

Geraldine Arata

Geraldine Arata is an American classical artist, that paints a certain Carnival of Venice themes, classic Roman and Greek god mythology that are very detailed and colorful.

Gershom Craft House

Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

Janus kinase

The name is taken from the two-faced Roman god of beginnings and endings, Janus, because the JAKs possess two near-identical phosphate-transferring domains.

Mercury Eight

Although Mercury's prewar history was short, the Mercury Eight had already earned for itself the image of being a fine performer in mph as well as mpg, this "hot car" image quite in keeping with its name, chosen by Edsel Ford, that of the fleet-footed messenger of the gods of Roman mythology.

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Arnaldo Momigliano and others, however, have argued that this distinction cannot be maintained.

Toldbodgade

It depicts the king flanked by Neptune and Mercury, the Roman Gods of seafaring and trade, holding a double edged trident and Caduceus respectively.


145 Adeona

Peters named it after Adeona, the Roman goddess of homecoming, because he had recently returned from a journey across the world to observe the transit of Venus.

28 Bellona

It was discovered by R. Luther on March 1, 1854, and named after Bellōna, the Roman goddess of war; the name was chosen to mark the beginning of the Crimean War.

Agonalia

Its institution, like that of other religious rites and ceremonies, was attributed to Numa Pompilius, the semi-legendary second king of Rome.

Æsir–Vanir War

Scholars have cited parallels between the Æsir–Vanir War, The Rape of the Sabine Women from Roman mythology, and the Mahabharata from Hindu mythology, providing support for a Proto-Indo-European "war of the functions."

Ceresco, Michigan

Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce named the community by combining the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing grains, with the first two letters "company".

Conrad Phillip Kottak

He believes that various American legends and stories, such as Star Trek, Star Wars and the Thanksgiving story are growing into a type of mythology which someday might be comparable to Greek, Roman, or other stories which today are considered to be myths.

Desmond Miles

The last segment of Ezio's memories brings an astonished Ezio (and Desmond) to a futuristic chamber underneath the Sistine Chapel, where the hologram of the goddess Minerva, addresses Desmond by name, and through Ezio, warns him of an impending cataclysm that has the potential to destroy all life on Earth.

Eutychus

He also notes the account's resemblance to numerous other stories from Greco-Roman mythology, such as Misenus, Palinurus, and Thespesius.

Faustulus

In Roman mythology, Faustulus was the shepherd who found the infants Romulus and Remus, who were being suckled by a she-wolf, known as Lupa, on the Palatine Hill.

Gná and Hófvarpnir

Scholarly theories have been proposed about Gná as a "goddess of fullness" and as potentially cognate to Fama from Roman mythology.

Jason Grace

After conducting lightning through his weapon, he realizes that he is the son of Jupiter, the Roman form of Zeus, king of the gods.

Koldinghus

The tower was so named because of the 4 statues of giants from the Greek and Roman mythology (Hannibal, Hector, Scipio and Hercules) which adorned it.

Lebanese wine

Wine played an important part in Phoenician religion, and the Greek/Roman god Dionysus/Bacchus may have originated in the wine rituals of Canaan.

Littlecote Roman Villa

This mosaic is usually interpreted in very complicated pagan religious terms involving not only Orpheus, but Bacchus and Apollo, the hall being seen as a cult centre for these two gods.

Lobi people

The Mouhoun is important in Lobi myth and symbolizes a dividing line between this world and the next, similar to the River Styx of Roman mythology.

Thetford Hoard

Many of the spoons bear pagan inscriptions to Faunus, a minor Roman god who had many characteristics in common with the Greek Pan.


see also

Baba Yaga

The second of the two mentions occurs within a list of Slavic gods and beings next to their presumed equivalence in Roman mythology (the Slavic god Perun, for example, appears equated with the Roman god Jupiter).

Horse goddess

Epona, the horse goddess in Celtic and Gallo-Roman mythology

Janolus

The name Janolus is derived from the two-headed god Janus, in ancient Roman mythology.

Libber

Liber, in ancient Roman mythology, a god of viticulture and wine, fertility and freedom

Salakanagara

Edi S. Ekajati, one of Indonesia historian, has an opinion that Salakanagara is Argyre which was a mythical island of silver in Greek and Roman mythology because Salakanagara means country of silver in Sanskrit.