Greco-Roman mythology

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Greco-Roman mythology is the intertwined body of myths, legends, and religious beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, featuring gods like Zeus/Jupiter, heroes, and cosmological tales that have profoundly influenced Western literature and culture.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Greco-Roman mythology canonical 12
Roman mythology 3
Classical mythology 2

Statements (86)

Predicate Object
instanceOf body of myths
cultural tradition
mythological tradition
religious belief system
associatedWithLanguage Ancient Greek
Latin
hasAfterlifeRealm Elysium
Hades
Tartarus
hasConcept Fates
the Muses
surface form: Muses

Olympian gods
Titans
centaurs
nymphs
satyrs
Underworld
surface form: the Underworld
hasDeity Aphrodite
Apollo
Ares
Artemis
Athena
Dionysus
surface form: Bacchus

Ceres
Cronus
Demeter
Diana
Dionysus
Gaia
Hades
Hephaestus
Hera
Hermes
Hestia
Juno
Mars
Mercury
Athena
surface form: Minerva

Neptune
Pluto
Poseidon
Saturn
Uranus
Venus
Vesta
Vulcan
hasHero Achilles
Aeneas
Heracles
Heracles
surface form: Hercules

Odysseus
Perseus
Theseus
James Joyce's Ulysses
surface form: Ulysses
hasMainDeity Jupiter
Zeus
hasMythCycle Virgil's Aeneid
surface form: The Aeneid

Homer's Iliad
surface form: The Iliad

Homer's Odyssey
surface form: The Odyssey

Trojan War
hasPart Greek mythology
Roman religion
surface form: Roman mythology
hasReligiousFunction explaining natural phenomena
providing moral exempla
structuring ritual practice
hasSource Hesiodic poems
Homeric epics
Roman historians and antiquarians
tragedies of Aeschylus
Euripides
surface form: tragedies of Euripides

Sophocles
surface form: tragedies of Sophocles

works of Ovid
works of Virgil
hasTheme cosmogony
divine intervention in human affairs
heroic quests
theogony
underworld journeys
influenced Neoclassicism
surface form: Neoclassical art

Renaissance culture
Western art
Western literature
Western philosophy
modern fantasy literature
practicedIn Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece

Roman Antiquity
surface form: ancient Rome

Referenced by (18)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Os Lusíadas usesMythology Greco-Roman mythology
Ovid’s Metamorphoses containsMythsFrom Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: Roman mythology
Council of the Gods hasMythology Greco-Roman mythology
Steropes belongsToTradition Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: classical mythology
Pollux culture Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: Roman mythology
Elissa mythologicalTradition Greco-Roman mythology
winged sandals of Hermes belongsToTradition Greco-Roman mythology
Pyramus culture Greco-Roman mythology
myth of Orpheus and Eurydice culturalTradition Greco-Roman mythology
European literature hasInfluenceFrom Greco-Roman mythology
Momus mythologicalTradition Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: Classical mythology
Sibyl’s cave culturalContext Greco-Roman mythology
Thisbe culture Greco-Roman mythology
spring of Arethusa appearsIn Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: Roman mythology
La grotta di Trofonio influencedBy Greco-Roman mythology
this entity surface form: Classical mythology
Columnae Herculis partOf Greco-Roman mythology
Psyche religiousContext Greco-Roman mythology
L’Amour menaçant mythologicalTradition Greco-Roman mythology