Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, reflecting the variety of roles, duties, and aspects ascribed to the god.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The improvement of the old Anatolian god, and his elevation to an intellectual sphere, may be considered an achievement of the Greek people.

Homer interprets Apollo as a terrible god ( δεινός θεός ) who brings death and disease with his arrows, but who can also heal, possessing a magic art that separates him from the other Greek gods.

As a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent, although later Roman poets often referred to him as Phoebus.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.

The Greek name for amber was ( elektron ), " formed by the sun ", and it was connected to the sun god ( Helios ), one of whose titles was Elector or the Awakener.

In a great majority of instances the name Abrasax is associated with a singular composite figure, having a Chimera-like appearance somewhat resembling a basilisk or the Greek primordial god Chronos ( not to be confused with the Greek titan Cronus ).

The program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the sun by NASA manager Abe Silverstein, who later said that " I was naming the spacecraft like I'd name my baby.

Ares (, Μodern Greek: Άρης ) was the Greek god of war.

His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.

There may also be a connection with the Roman god of war Mars, via hypothetical Proto-Indo-European * M ̥ rēs ; compare Ancient Greek μάρναμαι ( marnamai ), " to fight, to battle ", or Punjabi maarna ( to kill, to hit ).

Ares was one of the Twelve Olympians in the archaic tradition represented by the Iliad and Odyssey, but Zeus expresses a recurring Greek revulsion toward the god when Ares returns wounded and complaining from the battlefield at Troy:

Ares was also worshipped by the Baharna of Tylos, however it is not known in the form of which Arabian god or if he was worshipped in his Greek form.

In 1804, the German chemist Friedrich Sertürner isolated from opium a " soporific principle " (), which he called " morphium " in honor of Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams ; in German and some other Central-European languages, this is still the name of the drug.

In Greek mythology, Aegina was a daughter of the river god Asopus and the nymph Metope.

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

In later times, during the Ptolemaic period, Anubis was merged with the Greek god Hermes, becoming Hermanubis.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

It was also around this time that the legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus developed as a conflation of the Egyptian god Thoth and the Greek Hermes ; this figure was associated with both writing and magic, and therefore of books on magic.

According to Greek mythology, hexameter was invented by the god Hermes.

The image of Hermes evolved and varied according to Greek art and culture.

See Greek mythology in popular culture: Hermes

Artapanus of Alexandria explicitly identified Moses not only with Thoth / Hermes, but also with the Greek figure Musaeus ( whom he calls " the teacher of Orpheus "), and ascribed to him the division of Egypt into 36 districts, each with its own liturgy.

A letter written by St. Gregory the Great to the abbot of St. Hermes in Palermo mentions an Agatho, a Greek born in Sicily to wealthy parents.

Zeus sends the god Hermes to escort King Priam, Hector ’ s father and the ruler of Troy, into the Greek camp.

Shortly thereafter, in the 1950s, the School adopted the Hermes emblem as its symbol, reflecting the entrepreneurial nature of the Greek god Hermes and his association with business, commerce and communication.

In his earliest forms, he appears to have been related to the Etruscan deity Turms, but most of his characteristics and mythology were borrowed from the analogous Greek god, Hermes.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

He may be a representation of the syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.

These associations to Thoth-Hermes could partially explain why some later Greek scholars linked Hermes Trismegistus to a hypothetical historical figure, given the numerous deifications.

A Mycenaean Greek reference found on a Linear B clay tablet at Pylos to a deity or semi-deity called TI-RI-SE-RO-E, Trisheros ( the " thrice or triple hero ") could be connected to the later epithet " thrice wise " " Trismegistos ", applied to Hermes / Thoth.

" The most likely interpretation of this passage is as two variants on the same syncretism of Greek Hermes and Egyptian Thoth ( or sometimes other gods ); the one viewed from the Greek-Arcadian perspective ( the fifth, who went from Greece to Egypt ), the other viewed from the Egyptian perspective ( the fourth, where Hermes turns out " actually " to have been a " son of the Nile ," i. e. a native god ).

One of Thoth's titles, " Three times great, great " ( see Titles ) was translated to the Greek ( Trismegistos ) making Hermes Trismegistus.

The folk etymology places the origin ( Greek: hermeneutike ) with Hermes, the mythological Greek deity whose role is that of messenger of the Gods.

The Greek view of language as consisting of signs that could lead to truth or falsehood is the very essence of Hermes, who is said to relish the uneasiness of the recipients.

In Ovid's moralizing fable ( Metamorphoses VIII ), which stands on the periphery of Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes ( in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively ), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a god was involved.

In Greek mythology, Ceryx or Keryx ( English translation: " herald ") was a son of Hermes and either Pandrosus or Agraulus.

Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

The ribosome ( from ribonucleic acid and the Greek soma, meaning " body ") is a large complex of RNA and protein which catalyzes protein translation, the formation of proteins from individual amino acids using messenger RNA as a template.

* The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Pheidippides as the messenger who runs from Athens to Sparta asking for help, and then runs back, a distance of over 240 kilometres each way.

Triton (, gen: Τρίτωνος ) is a mythological Greek god, the messenger of the big sea.

The Greek historian Herodotus, the main source for the Greco-Persian Wars, mentions Pheidippides as the messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta asking for help.

The word " deacon " is derived from the Greek word diakonos ( διάκονος ), which is a standard ancient Greek word meaning " servant ", " waiting-man ", " minister " or " messenger ".

This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is " from the Night's Plutonian shore ", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld ( also known as Hades in Greek mythology ).

In Greek mythology, Iris (; Ἶρις ) is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.

The Greek word originally meant a reward given to the messenger for good news ( = " good ", = " I bring a message "; the word angel is of the same root ) and later " good news ".

Ten ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Hermes, after Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, while another was planned:

However, the actions and words of angels ( from the Greek for " messenger ") are generally understood to derive directly from God's will.

* Hermes is the divine messenger of the Olympian gods in Greek mythology

The word iridescence is derived in part from the Greek word ἶρις îris ( gen. ἴριδος íridos ), meaning rainbow, which in turn derives from the goddess Iris of Greek mythology, who is the personification of the rainbow and acted as a messenger of the gods.

The original Greek text, in the quotation from the prophet Isaiah, uses the verb εὐαγγελίσασθαι ( euangelisasthai ), which is a compound of εὐ ( good ) and αγγέλω ( announce ; from this same root the word angel is formed, an angel in fact is a messenger ).

The word " archangel " comes from the Greek αρχάγγελος ( archangělǒs ), meaning chief angel, a translation of the Hebrew רב ־ מלאך ( rav-mal ' ákh ) It derives from the Greek archō, meaning to be first in rank or power ; and aggělǒs which means messenger.

In the Greek translation of the Septuagint, made for the Greek-speaking Jews of Alexandria, the Greek ángelos ( άγγελος: " messenger ") translates the Hebrew word mal ' ak, while daimon ( or neuter daimonion ) carries the meaning of a natural spirit that is less than divine ( see supernatural ) and translates the Hebrew words for idols, foreign gods, certain beasts, and natural evils.

Thus the Greek word Trismegistos " thrice grand " was first used as a Greek name for the Egyptian god of science and invention, Thot, and later as an epitheton for the Greek Hermes and, finally, the fully equated Roman Mercurius ( Mercury ; both were also messenger of the gods ).