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Mercury (mythology)

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referred the decision to the popular assembly, and also decreed that whichever was chosen should also exercise additional duties, including presiding over the markets, establish a merchants' guild, and exercising the functions of the
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The temple was regarded as a fitting place to worship a swift god of trade and travel, since it was a major center of commerce as well as a racetrack. Since it stood between the plebeian stronghold on the Aventine and the
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When they described the gods of Celtic and Germanic tribes, rather than considering them separate deities, the Romans interpreted them as local manifestations or aspects of their own gods, a cultural trait called the
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identifies him as the chief god of the Germanic peoples. This association of Mercury and Wotan is seen in the English language day-name Wednesday and the French Mercredi.
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representing different aspects or roles, or representing syncretisms with non-Roman deities. The most common and significant of these epithets included the following:
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to the underworld. Mercury, however, falls in love with Larunda and makes love to her on the way. Larunda thereby becomes mother to two children, referred to as the
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of one of the legions. The senate and the consuls, in particular the conservative Appius, were outraged at this decision, and it inflamed the ongoing situation.
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suggests that Mercury was among the most popular of Roman gods. The god of commerce was depicted on two early bronze coins of the Roman Republic, the
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wrote of Mercury being the most popular god in Britain and Gaul, regarded as the inventor of all the arts. This is probably because, in the Roman
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Bronze figurine of Mercury with three phalluses, with rooster in the left hand and money bag in the right hand, 100 to 250 A.D., found in
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God of financial gain, commerce, eloquence, messages, communication, travelers, boundaries, luck, trickery, merchants, thieves
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The United States E-6B aircraft flown by the United States Navy is a communications platform named after the god.
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in the following year. At the completion of its construction, a dispute emerged between the consuls
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had similar characteristics. From the beginning, Mercury had essentially the same aspects as
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Like Hermes, he was also a god of messages, eloquence and of trade, particularly of the
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with the Roman deity Mercury. Esibraeus is mentioned only in an inscription found at
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Recueil Général des Bas-relief, Statues et Bustes de la Germanie Romaine
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Glossary to Ovid's Fasti, Penguin edition, by Boyle and Woodard at 343
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instead of a winged helm, the coin bears his name due to resemblance.
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as to which of them should have the honour of dedicating the temple.
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Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the
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center on the Palatine, it also emphasized the role of Mercury as a
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Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling
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The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (images of Mercury)
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Mercury features in the first published comic book story of
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with the Roman god Mercury, attested in an inscription from
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Roman Coins and Their Values – The Millennium Edition
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The name "Mercury" is possibly related to the Latin words
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That year saw disturbances at Rome between the patrician
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of his mission to found the city of Rome. In Ovid's
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Beard, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town at 295–298
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Mercurius
Alipes (horse)
Alipes (centipede)
Mercurius (disambiguation)
Mercury (disambiguation)
Dii Consentes
Mercurius by Artus Quellinus the Elder
Artus Quellinus the Elder
Planet
Mercury
Caduceus
Wednesday
Maia
Jupiter
Caelus
Dies
Cicero
Hyginus
Larunda
Lares
Turms
Hermes
Thoth
Anubis
Lugus

Fresco
Pompeii
Religion in
ancient Rome

Marcus Aurelius sacrificing

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