2022年12月9日 · The god of merchants and commerce, Mercury adorned coinage such as this silver denarius, minted in Rome c. 82 BCE. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Public Domain Family. Mercury was the child of Jupiter, king of gods, and Maia, a nymph and one of the daughters of Atlas, who were known as the Pleiades. Though Mercury was the only child of that union ...

2022年12月7日 · Among their number were the messenger god Mercury, Proserpina, Ceres’ child famously abducted by Pluto, and Minerva, goddess of wisdom and defender of the Roman state. Vulcan married Venus, the goddess of sex, lust, and love, who provided a beautiful contrast to Vulcan’s notorious unattractiveness.

2023年4月17日 · Virgil: Mercury (the Roman equivalent of Hermes) appears throughout the Aeneid (19 BCE) as the messenger of the gods. Ovid: Various myths of Hermes/Mercury are told in Ovid’s poems, especially the Metamorphoses and Fasti (both ca. 8 CE). Statius: In the epic Thebaid (first century CE), Hermes/Mercury is the messenger of the gods, especially ...

2022年11月29日 · Lugh was a master of many talents. As the god of oaths, he held domain over rulers and nobility. He also served as the god of justice in its many forms; his judgement was often swift and without mercy. In what may seem like a contradiction, Lugh was also a trickster who was willing to lie, cheat, and steal to overcome his opponents.

2023年8月31日 · Likewise, the Greek Hermes, son of Zeus and the Atlantid Maia, became the Roman messenger god Mercury. The Greek Apollo and Artemis, twin children of Zeus and Leto, became the Roman Apollo and Diana, gods of prophecy, healing, and the natural world (Apollo was unique in retaining his Greek name within the Roman pantheon). Their mother, in Roman ...

2023年3月8日 · When Mercury came to return the cattle, Apollo noticed him playing the lyre and was so attracted to the instrument that he agreed to accept it in lieu of his herd. Apollo quickly mastered the instrument and soon was celebrated as the greatest of all musicians. Some time later, the rustic god Pan compared his music to Apollo’s.

2022年12月9日 · The messenger god Mercury, who could travel freely between the worlds of the living and the dead, spied Proserpina in Pluto’s possession and quickly informed Jupiter. The king of the gods approached his brother and ordered him to release Proserpina at once, lest he suffer the wrath of Jupiter.

2022年11月29日 · Mars had many half-siblings as well thanks to his father’s indiscretions. These half-siblings included Mercury, messenger god of commerce and communication, Proserpina, Ceres’ child famously abducted by Pluto, and Minerva, goddess of wisdom and defender of the Roman state. A figure of primal masculinity, Mars was desired by many.

2023年3月11日 · Argus was a monster whose numerous eyes and ability to survive without sleep earned him the moniker “Panoptes,” meaning “all-seeing.” Hera appointed him the guardian of her husband’s lover Io, whom she had transformed into a cow. But the god Hermes ultimately killed Argus and freed Io.

2023年9月19日 · Hermaphroditus was a deity who was half-male and half-female. Originally a male child of Hermes and Aphrodite, Hermaphroditus was loved by the nymph Salmacis, who prayed that she and her beloved would become one—a single being with the traits of both sexes.