What is the Roman name for the Greek god Poseidon?
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Neptune  \n\n[Roman] The god of the sea among the Romans. He was not a very powerful god, and little is known of his origin. When he was first introduced in Rome, he already had all the characteristics of the Greek Poseidon. Despite the fact that his cult grew after his equation with Poseidon, Neptune was far less popular among sailors than Poseidon was among the Greek mariners. Neptune was held in much higher regard as Neptune Equester, the god and patron of horse-racing and horses. One of temples was located near the Circus Flaminius, one of the larger trace-tracks. Another sanctuary was in the Campus Martius (25 BCE) were the Neptunalia was celebrated on July 23. The trident is Neptune's attribute.
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from the Greek Hippus - means Horse and Potamus - River
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Janus was a Roman god with two faces.
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whoa, I gotta think way back to answer this. Without looking anything up, I just remember that the Pantheon was a large domed building that honored each of the Gods of Roman Mythology by depicting them in big ovals all around the inside ceiling of the building. I think there was something about their placement, like Zeus & Hera were positioned in the middle with his next god of choice to his right & left and ...cannot remember all the significance. Wish I could remember more. Good luck!
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Poseidon is actually in a lot of different Greek myths, his Roman name is Neptune and he was one of the original 6 gods sired by the titans Cronos and Rhea. In the birth of the gods myth he was swallowed whole as a baby by his father Cronos. Later on Poseidon and his 4 other siblings Hera, Hestia, Hades, and Demeter were freed by their youngest brother Zeus who later became the King of the Gods. Supposedly he is married to Demeter, but like the other gods he has been known to stray. Poseidon is the god of the oceans and carries a Trident. He's also involoved in the birth of Aphrodite myth. He sent waves to guide her seashell to the shore. There's also the myth where he tries to win the city that is currently know as Athens away from Athena, he eventually loses though and instead becomes a patron to Troy, which sadly later on also becomes destroyed in The Illiad. A Greek hero that Poseidon was angry at would be in the Odessey, Odysseus ended up blinding a cyclopes, one of Poseidon's sons, and for that Poseidon unleashes a storm that dooms Odysseus to sail endlessly. Although in an act of mercy, when the crew was thrown overboard they were turned into dolphins.\nPS Aphrodite was actually married to the smith of the Gods known as Hephaestus.
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Bacchus/Dionysus was the god of wine.  Silenus is the god of "beer buddies"
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from the Greek for monstrous lizard\ndeinos = monstrous\nsauros = lizard
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What an interesting question! You sent me searching all over the Web for answers. And I am not sure I found the right ones! I did find that the prefix psych- isn't from the Greek letter psi, but from Greek mythology -- Psyche, the personification of the human soul. The prefix has come to mean soul, mind, or mental, which explains the derivation of words like psyche, psychiatry, and psychology. I don't believe it has any relation to psi or Poseidon.
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My guess:\n\nIn Roman mythology Pluto is the God of the underworld, which is all cold and dark.  The ninth planet is also cold and dark.  Hence, the name.
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THE CADUCEUS SYMBOL\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus
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Zeus\n \nSupreme Greek god and head of the Greek pantheon. In addition Zeus functioned as a sky god or weather god, and as a god of justice and freedom. Son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea. Consort of Hera. His cult probably dates back to the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations. According to Homer, he lived on Mt. Olympus in Thessaly, where he gathered the other gods under his dominion.After his birth, Rhea saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed by Kronos along with his siblings by substituting a stone dressed in swaddling cloths. She then hid the child in a cave on the island of Crete, where the Kouretes performed a dance in which they clashed their weapons about him in order to drown out his cries. His nurse while in Crete was Amalthea, either a nymph or a goat. Upon reaching maturity, Zeus overthrew the Titans and forced Kronos to disgorge his siblings. Zeus then cast Kronos into Tartaros and established himself as head of a new pantheon in which he and his siblings had the most prominent roles. He divided dominion over the world with his brothers Poseidon and Hades.Zeus's sexual prowess was legendary, and he either seduced or forced himself upon numerous goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women,fathering countless children in the process. He assumed many different forms in pursuit of his numerous affairs. He appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, to Danae as a shower of gold, and to Europa as a white bull. Ares, Eleithyia and Hephaistos were the most prominent of his children by his official consort Hera, whom he originally seduced in the form of a cuckoo (although some sources say that it was Hera who seduced Zeus). He fathered Apollo and Artemis by Leto, Persephone by Demeter, Hermes by Maia,Dionysos by Semele, the Horai and Moirai by Themis, the Muses by Mnemosyne, and Herakles by Alkmene. Athena was also said to have been born from his forehead after he had swallowed Metis. Zeus may also have had a homosexual relationship with Ganymede, whom he made the cupbearer of the gods. The cult of Zeus was of universal significance in the Greek world, although his cult was often secondary in individual locations to the local tutelary deity, such as Athena in Athens. Greek households typically had statues of Zeus in their forecourts,and he was often associated with mountaintop shrines. He had temples in every Greek city, two of the more notable being iAthens and at Olympia. His most important festival was at Olympia. The oracle at Dodona in Epirus was dedicated to Zeus. He was depicted as a bearded and physically imposing man of middle age. His most common attributes were the thunderbolt and the eagle.\nAnd finally because so many asked, here is what we think is a complete list of the women he seduced or rape as required to satisfy his lust. Remember there were some men too, but why put them in a list of women? \n\nZephyros\n \nGreek god of the west wind. Son of Astraios and Eos. Believed to live in a cave in Thrace. Known to the Romans as Favonius. \n\nTyche\n\nGreek goddess of fate and fortune. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Okeanos and Tethys. In Pindar, Zeus is given as her father. She was often associated with Agathos Daimon, the "Good Spirit", and with Nemesis, the goddess of justice and vengeance. Tyche was depicted with a rudder or a cornucopia, and often with a wheel as a symbol of the transitory nature of fortune and of the fickle character of the goddess herself. She had a temple at Argos, where the first set of dice were said to have been invented. Her temple at Antioch remained intact at least until the reign of the Roman Emperor Theodosius (AD 379-95). \n\nTriton \n\nMinor Greek sea god. He was depicted as a merman, with the upper body of a man and the tail of a dolphin or a fish. Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. According to Hesiod, he lived with his parents in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea. The Greeks often thought of there being many Tritons rather than just one. His attribute wa
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Proteus?\n\n"The sea divinity Proteus, probably another of the older generation of gods, is often named as the attendant of Poseidon or even as his son"
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Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategy in war.  Her Greek name is Athena.  She is also the goddess of spinning.  Many gods and goddesses are portrayed in art, and in turn could end up as decorations on furniture.  You'll know it's Minerva if it is a lady wearing a helmet and breastplate.  The owl is also another one of her symbols.
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If its' of Roman mythology, Juno is the Roman counterparter of Greek's Hera, keeper of the hearth.  Juno was married Jupiter, counterpartner, Zeus.(Jupiter aka Jove) Juno was associated with women and childbirth. Different members of the Roman society had temples, such as Vesta, where, in her temple, burnt the eternal flame of the Roman state. Juno was the protector of Carthage, which was destroyed, after 100 years of war. Maybe it was in Carthage.
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it was Poseidon's as named in mythology... he was the one that gave him trouble throwout the journey in his ship since he was the god that protected seas
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"Pantheon" in Greek refers to the total group of gods.  It literally means "all gods" in Greek.  There would be different pantheons for different cultures depending on the group of gods worshiped.  The word was later applied to a major temple in Rome (which still stands as one of the architecturally most important buildings of the ancient period).  Inside the Pantheon were statues or shrines for each of the Roman gods, hence the use of "Pantheon" for its name.
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Nile comes from the ancient word in greece