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In Pseudo-Plutarch's De defectu oraculorum ("The Obsolescence of Oracles"), [54] Pan is the only Greek god who actually dies. During the reign of Tiberius (AD 14–37), the news of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the Greek island of Paxi. A divine voice hailed him across the salt water, "Thamus, are you there?
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ... the Greeks worshipped various gods of the countryside, the satyr-god Pan, Nymphs (spirits of ...
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. Major deities The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes.
Faunus was naturally conflated with the Greek god Pan, who was a pastoral god of shepherds who was said to reside in Arcadia. With the increasing influence of Greek mythology on Roman mythology in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE, the Romans identified their own deities with Greek ones in what was called interpretatio Romana.
19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Bacchus – god of wine, nature, pleasure and festivity; equivalent to the Greek god Dionysus; Ceres, goddess of growing plants and motherly relationships; equivalent to the Greek goddess Demeter; Diana, goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness and the moon; equivalent to the Greek goddess Artemis; Faunus, horned god of the forest, plains ...
Silenus, a Greek God, merged with Silvanus in Latin Literature. [19] Pan (god of forests, pastures, and shepherds), in Greco-Roman mythology. [19] Aristaeus, a god/patron of shepherds, harvest and other rural arts. The Slavic god Porewit has similarities with Silvanus. [20]
Cole.S.G, Demeter in the ancient Greek city and the countryside in eds S. Alcock, R. Osborn Placing the gods.Sanctuaries and secret spaces in Ancient Greece(Oxford 1994), p. 199-216; Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 340.