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Celebrations. Games. Date. 23 July. The Neptunalia was an obscure archaic two-day festival in honor of Neptune as god of waters, celebrated at Rome in the heat and drought of summer, probably 23 July (Varro, De lingua Latina vi.19). [1] It was one of the dies comitiales, when committees of citizens could vote on civil or criminal matters.
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...
Coordinates: 43°46′10.48″N 11°15′21.87″E. The Fountain of Neptune at mid-day. The Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, (Italian: Fontana del Nettuno) is situated in the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria Square), in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of ...
Beginning date. 1563. Completion date. 1566. The Fountain of Neptune (Italian: Fontana di Nettuno) is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy [1] The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of the Italian courtly elite in the mid-sixteenth century.
Neptune brightened about 10% between 1980 and 2000 mostly due to the changing of the seasons. [182] Neptune may continue to brighten as it approaches perihelion in 2042. The apparent magnitude currently ranges from 7.67 to 7.89 with a mean of 7.78 and a standard deviation of 0.06. [18] Prior to 1980, the planet was as faint as magnitude 8.0. [18]
Neptune and Salacia in a mosaic, Herculaneum, 1st c. AD Neptune and Amphitrite by Sebastiano Ricci, c. 1690. In ancient Roman mythology, Salacia (/ s ə ˈ l eɪ ʃ ə / sə-LAY-shə, Latin: [saˈɫaːkia]) was the female divinity of the sea, worshipped as the goddess of salt water who presided over the depths of the ocean. [1]
40°50′27″N 14°15′09″E / 40.84079°N 14.252425°E / 40.84079; 14.252425. The Fountain of Neptune (Italian: Fontana del Nettuno) is a monumental fountain, located in Municipio square, in Naples, Italy. The fountain until the end of 2014 was located across the street of via Medina across from the church of Santa Maria ...
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the god of freshwater and the sea in the Roman religion. [2] He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. [3] In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto, with whom preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld), and the seas. [4]