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Pluto (mythology) In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pluto ( Greek: Πλούτων, Ploutōn) was the ruler of the Greek underworld. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto represents a more positive concept of the god who presides over the afterlife.
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For them, Februus was also the god of riches (money and...
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Pluto (mitologia) Statua di Eirene con Pluto del 370 a.C. in una copia romana. Pluto, la cui etimologia deriva dal greco antico Πλοῦτος?, Plū̀tos ("ricco"), è una figura della mitologia greca, dio della ricchezza, il cui culto, di carattere agrario, aveva come sede principale l'isola di Samotracia .
The Golden Bough (mythology) The golden bough by Wenceslaus Hollar, 17th century. The Golden Bough is one of the episodic tales written in the epic Aeneid, book VI, by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BC), which narrates the adventures of the Trojan hero Aeneas after the Trojan War. [1] [2]
Neptune ( Latin: Neptūnus [nɛpˈtuːnʊs]) is the Roman god of freshwater and the sea [2] in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. [3] . In the Greek-inspired tradition, he is a brother of Jupiter and Pluto; the brothers preside over the realms of heaven, the earthly world (including the underworld ), and the seas. [4] .
Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most- massive known object to directly orbit the Sun .
- 4.743 km/s
- Clyde W. Tombaugh
- February 18, 1930
- Lowell Observatory
Saturn's chthonic nature connected him to the underworld and its ruler Dis Pater, the Roman equivalent of Greek Plouton (Pluto in Latin) who was also a god of hidden wealth. In 3rd-century AD sources and later, Saturn is recorded as receiving gladiatorial offerings (munera) during or near the Saturnalia.
Pluto is the god of the underworld in Roman mythology. Pluto is also known as Hades in Greek mythology. Pluto is also the god of wealth because diamonds and other jewels come from underground. A myth about Pluto is that he took Proserpina, who was the daughter of Ceres, to the underworld to be his wife.
