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- January (in Latin, "Ianuarius") is named after Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology.
- In Roman mythology, the entrance to the underworld located at Avernus, a crater near Cumae, was the route Aeneas used to descend to the realm of the dead.
- Five-rayed fossil sea urchin shells were associated with the deity Sopdu, the Morning Star, equivalent of Venus in Roman mythology.
- Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary.
- "Vine") or Ampelus (Latin) was a personification of the grapevine and lover of Dionysus in Greek and Roman mythology.
- Together they are known as the Charites in Greek mythology or the "Gratiae" (Graces) in Roman mythology, and they were responsible for overseeing all feasts and dances.
- In Greek and Roman mythology, the Harpies were creatures employed by the higher gods to carry out punishments for crimes.
- Jane Ellen Harrison (1882) has speculated that the mermaids or tritonesses of Greek and Roman mythology may have been brought from the Middle East, possibly transmitted by Phoenician mariners.
- Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents vengeance, stands sleepless guard at the top of the turret lashing her whip. Roman mythology describes a pit inside extending down into the earth twice as far as the distance from the lands of the living to Olympus.
- It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology.
- The idea of demigods as found in Hinduism is very different from that found within Greco-Roman mythology.
- In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus became one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality.
- The word "volcano" is derived from the name of Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Aeolian Islands of Italy whose name in turn comes from Vulcan, the god of fire in Roman mythology.
- in which Latin texts refer to the god by way of a perceived counterpart in Roman mythology.
- The other moons of Pluto (Charon, Nix, Hydra, and Kerberos) also have names from Greco-Roman mythology related to the underworld.
- Moreover, theories have been proposed that the idea that there are three main norns may be due to a late influence from Greek and Roman mythology, where there are also spinning fate goddesses (Moirai and Parcae).
- , a priestess of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology) who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Hellespont, and Leander ([...] , "Léandros"), a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait.
- With the increasing influence of Greek mythology on Roman mythology in the 3rd and 2nd centuries [...] , the Romans identified their own deities with Greek ones in what was called "interpretatio Romana".
- Acoetes ([...] , via [...]) was the name of four men in Greek and Roman mythology.
- In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, [...] , [...]; [...]) is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems.
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