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Grannus was a healing spring god, later equated with Apollo. [55] [56] [57] Apollo Maponus. A god known from inscriptions in Britain. This may be a local fusion of Apollo and Maponus. Apollo Moritasgus ("masses of sea water"). [clarification needed] An epithet for Apollo at Alesia, where he was worshipped as the god of healing and, possibly, of ...
According to Roman tradition, the first temple to Apollo was promised to the god in 433 BCE in return for his intercession during a plague. This temple was originally known as the Temple of Apollo Medicus and later as the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, after Gaius Sosius, who restored it around 32 BCE.
Securitas, goddess of security, especially the security of the Roman empire. Senectus, god of old age. His Greek equivalent is Geras. Silvanus, god of woodlands and forests. Sol/Sol Invictus, sun god. Somnus, god of sleep; equates with the Greek Hypnos. Soranus, a god later subsumed by Apollo in the form Apollo Soranus. An Underworld god. Sors ...
The Temple of Apollo, also known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is a Roman temple built in 120 BC and dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, southern Italy. [1] The sanctuary was a public space influenced by Roman colonists to be dedicated to Greco-Roman religion and culture. [2]
In doing so, Apollo took the form of a dolphin, boarded the ship, and the sailors were awed into fearful submission to the deity. [55] A divine wind guided the ship across the sea and to Crissa, where Apollo revealed himself to the sailors, commanded them to worship him, and guided them to Delphi where he promptly put them in charge of the ...
The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices [1]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome. Their gilt statues stood in the Roman Forum, and later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. [2]
The Temple of Apollo is a Roman temple built around 150 A.D. during the Pax Romana era in the ancient Carian town of Side, in southern Turkey on the Mediterranean Sea coast and dedicated to Apollo, the Greek and Roman god of music, harmony and light. [1] [2] The Temple of Apollo dates back to the time of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (r. 138 ...
Apollo named the child after Coronis' nickname, Aegle. [9] Phoenician tradition maintains that Asclepius was born of Apollo without any woman involved. [10] According to the Roman version, Apollo, having learned about Coronis' betrayal with the mortal Ischys through his raven Lycius, killed her with his arrows. Before breathing her last, she ...