Jul 19, 2023 · Faunus was a rustic Roman god of forests and woodlands, responsible for protecting flocks. The half-man, half-goat Faunus was identified with the Greek god Pan from a relatively early period.

Oct 5, 2023 · Evander, son of Hermes, was a wise Arcadian who fled his homeland and immigrated to Italy. There he built the city of Pallantium on the site that would eventually become Rome. When the hero Aeneas later arrived in Italy, Evander supported him in his war against Turnus; but this support cost Evander the life of his son Pallas, who was killed in battle.

Mar 8, 2023 · Apollo was the Roman god who inspired prophecy, poetry, music, and medicine. Incorporated directly from the Greeks after a plague devastated Rome, he was both the bringer of and guardian against pestilence.

Aug 31, 2023 · Jupiter was the supreme god of the Roman pantheon, a god of the sky and weather and the champion of Rome and its empire. His Greek counterpart was Zeus.

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Mar 22, 2023 · Polyphemus was a son of Poseidon and one of the feared Sicilian Cyclopes. He was eventually blinded by Odysseus.

Mar 24, 2023 · Satyrs and silens were hybrid creatures—part human and part horse—who served as companions of the wine god Dionysus. They lived in the forest, where they gained a reputation for revelry and for chasing after beautiful nymphs and Maenads.

Mar 11, 2023 · The Nereids were the fifty daughters of the sea gods Nereus and Doris. Numbered among the nymphs—female divinities who took the form of beautiful young women—the Nereids were widely regarded as kind and helpful sea deities. The most famous among them were Amphitrite, Galatea, and Thetis.

We spy’d a lake o’er-grown with trembling reeds, Whose wavy tops an op’ning scene disclose, From which an antique smoaky altar rose. I, as my susperstitious guide had done, Stop’d short, and bless’d my self, and then went on; Yet I enquir’d to whom the altar stood, Faunus, the Naids, or some native God? No silvan deity, my friend ...

With marble fingers wip’d them off, and said: My dearest Goddess, let thy Scylla know, (For I am faithful) whence these sorrows flow. The maid’s intreaties o’er the nymph prevail, Who thus to Scylla tells the mournful tale. The Story of Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea Acis, the lovely youth, whose loss I mourn, From Faunus, and the nymph ...