Genoese admiral Andrea Doria as Neptune, by Agnolo Bronzino.

Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He was a relative of Ceres. He is analogous but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology. The Roman conception of Neptune owed a great deal to the Etruscan god Nethuns. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 433 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2536 × 3508 pixel, file size: 474 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Neptune (mythology) Andrea Doria User:DO... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 433 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (2536 × 3508 pixel, file size: 474 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Neptune (mythology) Andrea Doria User:DO... For other uses, see Andrea Doria (disambiguation). ... Andrea Doria as Neptune Agnolo di Cosimo (1503, Firenze – 1572, Firenze) (also known as Agnolo Bronzino and Agnolo Tori). ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... A head of Minerva found in the ruins of the Roman baths in Bath Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... The Etruscans were a race of unknown origin from North Italy who were eventually integrated into Rome. ... In Etruscan mythology, Nethuns was the god of wells, later expanded to all water, including the sea. ...

Originally he was an Italic god paired with Salacia, possibly the goddess of the salt water. At an early date (399 BC) he was identified with the Greek god, Poseidon, when the Sibylline books ordered a lectisternium in his honour (Livy v. 13). Mosaic from Herculaneum depicting Neptune and Amphitrite Amphitrite, in ancient Greek mythology, was a sea-goddess, and wife of Poseidon, identified with the Salacia the wife of Neptune in Roman mythology. ... Neptune reigns in the city of Bristol. ... The Sibylline Books or Sibyllae were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the semi-legendary last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire. ... Lectisternium (from Lat. ... A portrait of Titus Livius made long after his death. ...

In earlier times it was the god Fortunus who was thanked for naval victories, but Neptune supplanted him in this role by at least the 1st century BC, when Sextus Pompeius called himself "son of Neptune". In Roman mythology, Portunes (alternatively spelled Portumnes or Portunus) was a god of keys and doors and livestock. ... Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, in English Sextus Pompey, was a Roman general from the late Republic (1st century BC). ...

Neptune statue, Gdańsk.

His festival, Neptunalia, at which tents were made from the branches of trees, July 23. He had two temples in Rome. The first, built in 25 BC, stood near the Circus Flaminius, the Roman racetrack, and contained a famous sculpture of a marine group by Scopas. The second, the Basilica Neptuni, was built on the Campus Martius and dedicated by Agrippa in honour of the naval victory of Actium. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x1067, 183 KB) Neptun fountain, Gdansk, Poland 2004, author Rafal Konkolewski File links The following pages link to this file: Tricity User:Rafikk ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x1067, 183 KB) Neptun fountain, Gdansk, Poland 2004, author Rafal Konkolewski File links The following pages link to this file: Tricity User:Rafikk ... For alternative meanings of GdaÅ„sk and Danzig, see GdaÅ„sk (disambiguation) and Danzig (disambiguation) Motto: Nec temere, nec timide (No rashness, no timidness) Coordinates: , Country Voivodeship Powiat city county Gmina GdaÅ„sk Established 10th century City Rights 1263 Government  - Mayor PaweÅ‚ Adamowicz Area  - City 262 km²  (101. ... The Neptunalia was an obscure archaic two-day festival in honour of Neptune as god of waters, celebrated at Rome in the heat and drought of summer, probably July 23 (Varro, De lingua latina vi. ... is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Circus Flaminius was a race-track in Ancient Rome. ... Scopas (Σκόπας) (c. ... Model of the ancient Campus Martius around 300 AD The Pantheon, a landmark of the Campus Martius since ancient Rome. ... Agrippa may refer to: Menenius Agrippa, a Roman consul in 503 BC. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (63–12 BC), Roman statesman and general, friend of Augustus Caesar. ... Combatants Octavian Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII of Egypt Commanders Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Mark Antony Strength 260 warships, mostly liburnian vessels 220 warships, mostly quinqueremes and 60 egyptian warships Casualties Unknown Almost all of Antonys fleet The Battle of Actium was a naval battle of the Roman Civil War between...

Neptune was associated as well with fresh water, as opposed to Oceanus, god of the world-ocean. Oceanus, with his wife, Tethys, ruled the seas before Poseidon. ...

Like Poseidon, Neptune was also worshipped by the Romans as a horse god, under the name Neptune Equester, patron of horse-racing. A head of Minerva found in the ruins of the Roman baths in Bath Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... This article is about the Greek god. ... A tutelary spirit or patron god is a god, often a minor god, who serves as the guardian or watcher over a particular site, person, or nation. ...

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