Latin - Mythology
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Griffin_Wolfe on December 10, 2009
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HIES Semester 1, HIES 9th Semester 2
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| Neptune |  brother of Zeus; controlled earthquakes on land |
| Zeus | lord of the seas; often presented with his three-pronged trident |
| Amphitrite | an Oceanid; wife of Zeus |
| Nereids and Proteus, "the old man of the sea" | both were nymphs; Proteus could change his form constantly |
| Mount Olympus | was the abode of the gods |
| Underworld | the gloomy region where dead souls dwelt |
| Tartarus | where the special enemies of the gods were imprisoned |
| Charon | a greedy old man who transported the souls in a ferry across the river Acheron (or Styx) to the underworld itself |
| Hades | ruler of the underworld; the brother of Jupiter and Neptune; he was also known as Pluto. He has a hat that can make himself invisible. |
| Proserpina or Persephone | Pluto's wife; she had eaten some pomegranate seeds in the underworld so she was stuck down there. A compromise was arranged whereby Proserpina would spend part of the year with her mother, and part with her husband. (According to classical mythology, Proserpina's return to her mother brings spring and the rebirth of vegetation, but autumn and the death of the earth's greenery results when she descends back to Hades. |
| Tantalus | he was condemned to stand in a poll of water, with luscious fruits handing over his head. Whenever he wanted to eat or drink, the tree with the fruits moved its branches upward, and the water in the pool receded, thereby "tantalizing" him with perpetual thirst and hunger. |
| Sisyphus | condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a moutain, only to see it roll back every time he pushed it to the peak. |
| Vesta | the goddess of the hearth and the household, identified with the greek goddess Hestia. |
| Ceres; Demeter | she was though to be a sister of Jupiter and Juno. (the word cereal derived from her name and a stalk of grain was her symbol). She was the goddess of vegetation, of the earth's creative power, and the agriculture. |
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