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3 giorni fa · Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire. In Roman mythology, he negotiates with Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, to establish principles of Roman religion such as offering, or sacrifice.
3 giorni fa · Zeus ( / zjuːs /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first syllable of his Roman equivalent Jupiter.
8 giu 2024 · Zeus, in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter. He was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt.
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- Zeus is the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. As the chief Greek deity, Zeus is considered the ruler, protector, and father of all gods an...
- Zeus’s name shares a similar origin with the sky god Dyaus of Hinduism, mentioned in the Rigveda. It is believed that many proto-Indo-European myth...
- Zeus fathered many children. Among the most well-known are Athena, the goddess of war; Perseus, the hero known for slaying Medusa; and Persephone,...
- In some versions of Greek mythology, Zeus ate his wife Metis because it was known that their second child would be more powerful than him. After Me...
3 giorni fa · The god Jupiter is the Roman counterpart of Zeus, and he is the principal god of Roman mythology. The Romans originally called Jupiter the "star of Jupiter" (Iuppiter Stella), as they believed it to be sacred to its namesake god.
7 giu 2024 · Apollo, in Greco-Roman mythology, a deity of manifold function and meaning, one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancient Greek and Roman gods. The son of Zeus and Leto, he was the god of crops and herds and the primary deity of the Delphic oracle.
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- In Greco-Roman mythology, Apollo is a deity of manifold function and meaning. He is one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancie...
- From the time of Homer onward, Apollo was the god of divine distance—the god who made mortals aware of their own guilt and purified them of it, who...
- In Classical mythology, Apollo and his twin, Artemis, were born on the isle of Delos to Zeus and Leto.
- In art, Apollo was represented as a beardless youth, either naked or robed. He was also often depicted with one or both of his two main attributes:...
- Apollo had many love affairs, though most had unfortunate endings. Daphne, in her effort to escape him, was changed into a laurel, his sacred tree;...
7 giu 2024 · The early Romans, like other Italians, worshiped not only purely functional and local forces but also certain high gods. Chief among them was the sky god Jupiter, whose cult, at first limited to the communities around the Alban Hills, later gained Rome as an adherent.
6 giorni fa · Continue reading from Encyclopedia Britannica. Jupiter, also called Jove, Latin Iuppiter, Iovis, or Diespiter, the chief ancient Roman and Italian god. Like Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical (root diu, “bright”), Jupiter was a sky god.
