ennius equated 12 roman gods with the 12 olympian gods/goddesses of the greek pantheon.
ennius equated 12 roman gods with the 12 olympian gods/goddesses of the greek pantheon.
who equated 12 roman gods with the 12 olympian gods/goddesses of the greek pantheon?
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insofar as the hilly topography of the site would allow, the city was built on a roman grid plan and settled with veterans who fought in the victorious legions and other foreign colonists. in the 2nd century ce, emperor hadrian built a grand theater in neapolis that could seat up to 7,000 people. coins found in nablus dating to this period depict roman military emblems and gods and goddesses of the greek pantheon such as zeus, artemis, serapis, and asklepios. neapolis was entirely pagan at this time. justin martyr who was born in the city c. 100 ce, came into contact with platonism, but not with christians there. the city flourished until the civil war between septimius severus and pescennius niger in 198–9 ce. having sided with niger, who was defeated, the city was temporarily stripped of its legal privileges by severus, who designated these to sebastia instead.
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often the epithet is the result of fusion of the olympian divinity with an older one: poseidon erechtheus, artemis orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant; thus most roman gods and goddesses, especially the twelve olympians, had traditional counterparts in greek, etruscan, and most other mediterranean pantheons, such as jupiter as head of the olympian gods with zeus, but in specific cults there may be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity. thus the greek word "trismegistos": "thrice grand" was first used as a greek name for the egyptian god of science and invention, thoth, and later as an "epitheton" for the greek hermes and, finally, the fully equated roman mercurius mercury (both were messenger of the gods). among the greeks, t. h. price notes the nurturing power of "kourotrophos" might be invoked in sacrifices and recorded in inscription, without specifically identifying hera or demeter.
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