In Greco-Roman mythology the god Zeus and the queen Leda produced the dioscuri, known in Greek mythology as Kastor and Polydeukes or Castor and Pollux in Roman mythology.

In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Arachne () was a great mortal weaver who boasted that her skill was greater than that of Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategy.

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In Greco-Roman mythology, Leuce or Leuka (" White " or specifically " White Poplar ") was the most beautiful of the nymphs and a daughter of Oceanus.

In Greco-Roman mythology, Sergestus was a Trojan friend of Aeneas.

In late Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet ( hieroglyphic wp-w3w. t ; also rendered Upuaut, Wep-wawet, Wepawet, and Ophois ) was originally a war deity, whose cult centre was Asyut in Upper Egypt ( Lycopolis in the Greco-Roman period ).

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The Peacock's mythology dates to Greco-Roman times and the story of Jason and the Argonauts.

Category: Films based on Greco-Roman mythology

Category: Films based on Greco-Roman mythology

She would pair these tunics with a few large shawls or veils, draping herself in folds of cloth and posing in such a way as to evoke popular images from Greco-Roman mythology.

The pepla are a specific class of Italian adventure or fantasy films that have subjects set in Biblical, medieval or classical antiquity, often with contrived plots based very loosely on mythology, legendary Greco-Roman history, or the other contemporary cultures of the time, such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, Etruscans, etc.

Its name is Latin for ' eagle ' and it represents the bird who carried Zeus's / Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology.

It is often held to represent the eagle who held Zeus's / Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology.

Category: Films based on Greco-Roman mythology

In classical Greco-Roman mythology, the god Hermes / Mercury has a special wand called a caduceus.

Classical mythology or Greco-Roman mythology is the cultural reception of myths from the ancient Greeks and Romans.

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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin, or simply Alexander Karelin, (; born September 19, 1967 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR ) is a Hero of the Russian Federation and was a dominant Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia.

Randy Duane Couture (; born June 22, 1963 ) is an American actor, retired mixed martial artist, collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestler.

By the Hellenistic period, it began to also be associated with Greco-Roman mystery cults and ceremonies, becoming synonymous with the Greek term musterion.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Gildas Hamel, drawing on the Book of Jonah and Greco-Roman sources — including Greek vases and the accounts of Apollonius of Rhodes, Gaius Valerius Flaccus and Orphic Argonautica — identifies a number of shared motifs, including the names of the heroes, the presence of a dove, the idea of " fleeing " like the wind and causing a storm, the attitude of the sailors, the presence of a sea-monster or dragon threatening the hero or swallowing him, and the form and the word used for the " gourd " ( kikayon ).

Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

These practical developments were followed by the development of theories of light and vision by ancient Greek and Indian philosophers, and the development of geometrical optics in the Greco-Roman world.

By the time of Christ, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the term " myth " ( Greek muthos ) to mean " fable, fiction, lie "; as a result, the early Christian theologians used " myth " in this sense.

The Early Christian Church used the Greek texts since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time, and the language of the Greco-Roman Church ( Aramaic was the language of Syriac Christianity, which used the Targums ).

The most famous mysteries of Greco-Roman antiquity were the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were of considerable antiquity and predated the Greek Dark Ages.

Its Greek language and customs made it a centre of Hellenistic civilization, creating the first traces of Greco-Roman culture.

Amphora is a Greco-Roman word developing in ancient Greek during the Bronze Age.

* The great satrapies ( provinces ) were often divided into smaller districts, the governors of which were also called satraps and ( by Greco-Roman authors ) also hyparchs ( actually Hyparkhos in Greek, ' vice-regents ').

It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period.

Under Greco-Roman rule, Egypt hosted several Greek settlements, mostly concentrated in Alexandria, but also in a few other cities, where Greek settlers lived alongside some seven to ten million native Egyptians.

The growth of Christianity throughout the Greco-Roman world in the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries, together with the Hellenization of the Byzantine Empire of the period, would lead to the formation of a unique literary form, combining Christian, Greek, Roman and Oriental ( such as the Persian Empire ) influences.

He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art.

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (, ) is a Greco-Roman periplus, written in Greek, describing navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports like Berenice along the coast of the Red Sea, and others along Northeast Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

In the decorative arts, Neo-Grec was based on the standard repertory of Greco-Roman ornament, combining motifs drawn from Greek vase-painting and repetitive architectural motifs like anthemions, palmettes, Greek key with elements from the Adam and Louis XVI styles of early Neoclassicism ( c. 1765 – 1790 ), and of Napoleonic-era Egyptian revival decorative arts ; it can be identified by the frequent use of isolated motifs of Classical heads and figures, masks, winged griffins, sea-serpents, urns, medallions, arabesques and lotus buds confined within panels, shaped reserves or multiple borders of anthemion, guilloche, and Greek fret pattern.

Through internal and external pressures, the two communities, Greco-Roman and Jewish, diverged, the former becoming universally Christian, and, in time, self-defined as " Roman ", when the emperor granted citizenship to all, and " Greek " became in patristic discourse synonymous with " pagan ".