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Encyclopedia > Tiberinus (god)

Tiberinus is a figure in Roman mythology. He was added to the Oceanids, as the genius of the river Tiber. Roman mythology, the mythological beliefs of the people of Ancient Rome, can be considered as having two parts. ... In Greek and Roman mythology, the Oceanids were the three thousand children of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys. ... In Roman mythology, every man had a genius and every woman a juno (Juno was also the name for the queen of the gods). ... River running into Harrietville Trout Farm A river is a large natural waterway. ... Tiber River in Rome The Tiber (Italian Tevere, Latin Tiberis), the third-longest river in Italy at 406 km (252 miles) after the Po and the Adige, flows through Rome in its course from Mount Fumaiolo to the Tyrrhenian Sea, which it reaches in two branches that cross the suburbs...


According to Virgil's epic Aeneid, he helped Aeneas in his travel from Troy, suggested him to land in Latium (see founding of Rome) and gave him much other precious advice. With Manto, Tiberinus was the father of Ocnus. (Aeneid, X, 198ff). A sculpture of Virgil, probably from the 1st century AD. For other uses, see Virgil (disambiguation). ... For the group of nine Ancient Egyptian deities, see Ennead. ... Aeneas flees burning Troy, Federico Barocci, 1598. ... Walls of the excavated city of Troy Troy (Ancient Greek Τροία Troia, also Ίλιον Ilion; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Trojan War cycle, especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. ... Latium (Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... An Italian poster from World War II using the Romulus and Remus myth: the wolf is tearing apart a Union Jack to encourage Italians to buy war bonds The founding of Rome is reported by many legends, which in recent times are beginning to be supplemented by more scientific reconstructions. ... There are two figures in Greek mythology named Manto, one a daughter of Tiresias, the other a daughter of Heracles. ... In Greek mythology, Ocnus was a son of Manto and Tiberinus. ...



 

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