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  • In the year 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased the Katterburg ... The palace complex includes sets of faux Roman ruins, staple luxuries of ...
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  • ===Classical Greco-Roman Henotheism=== Perhaps the most salient example ... /Delphi/8991/roman.html "Roman Mythology."] Retrieved March ...
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  • centers by the fifth century B.C.E. The Roman counterpart to Pan is Faunus ... H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology (London: Methuen & ...
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  • == Etiological Mythology == An etiological myth is a myth intended ... By the Christian era, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the ...
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  • of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century C.E ... culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version ...
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  • myrtle, rose, sparrows, and lime trees. Her Roman equivalent is the goddess ... child was named Pleasure, or (in the Roman mythology) Volupta. ...
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  • Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records ... the ruler of Mount Olympus. In Greek mythology he was the bringer of thunder ...
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  • Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times. Princeton, NJ: Princeton ... come out of ancient Persia. In Persian mythology, in particular during the ...
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  • In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ... him. A similar sea-demon appears in the mythology of many cultures. The biblical ...
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  • and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of ... Bacchus was the Roman characterization of the Greek Dionysus, a deity ...
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  • one") that he came to be known in Roman mythology; the corresponding Etruscan ... ===Roman mythology=== *Dis *Dis Pater *Pluto ==Notes== ==References== ...
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  • ===Roman mythology=== The Romans held beliefs very similar to those ... Roman Empire believed the deities of Roman mythology to be fallen angels ...
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  • In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a mythical creature that was ... The origin of the Minotaur is well accepted in Greek mythology without ...
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  • was a Phrygian goddess originating in the mythology of ancient Anatolia, whose ... In Roman mythology, she was given the name Magna Mater deorum Idaea ...
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  • Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The Roman Catholic concept of limbo developed as a result of two dogmatic ...
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  • a tourist attraction in classical Greek and Roman times. Archaeologists in ... the inhabitants. In Hellenistic and Roman times, the ruins at Mycenae ...
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  • . This early migration of Greek gods to Roman areas led to the creation ... In classical Greek mythology, Hephaestus can be seen as evidence of ...
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  • == Mythology of Demeter and Persephone == The Eleusinian Mysteries ... The Roman emperor Theodosius I closed the sanctuaries by decree in ...
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  • exploits. Her equivalent in Roman mythology was Juno. The cow and ... * Rose, H. J. A Handbook of Greek Mythology. New York: E. P. Dutton ...
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  • either or both Hera and Aphrodite. Roman mythology renders Aphrodite as ... until the advent of Christianity in the Roman empire and Islam in the Arabic ...
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