Hercules Magusanus is a Romano-Germanic deity or hero worshipped during the early first millennium AD in the Lower Rhine region among the Batavi, Marsaci...
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Hercules (/ˈhɜːrkjʊˌliːz/, US: /-kjə-/) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena. In classical...
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him. A deity known as Hercules Magusanus was venerated in Germania Inferior; due to the Roman identification of Thor with Hercules, Rudolf Simek has suggested...
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coinage honors deities—Hercules Magusanus and Hercules Deusoniensis—who would have been popular among the Batavians. Hercules Magusanus was probably an interpretatio...
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the Greek myths of Heracles or the Roman and later classical myths of Hercules. In the Etruscan tradition, Uni (Roman Juno) grants Hercle access to a...
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Terborg / Wisch, Oldenzaal / Losser). Nijmegen - derivative of "Novio Magusanus". Magusanus was the Roman name of Donar. Nijmegen was the heart of the Batavian...
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potentially stemming from a folk etymology Ercol, a synonym for the Roman deity Hercules used in King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae...
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Photographs of the excavations can be found online. An altar to Hercules Magusanus was found in 1841 "near the Bridge at Brightons" about a mile south-east...
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followed by Hercules, and Mars; he also mentions Isis, Odysseus, and Laertes. Scholars generally interpret Mercury as meaning Odin, Hercules as meaning...
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of Maaspoort. Empel was the ancient site of a temple dedicated to Hercules Magusanus. It is one of only a few religious monuments from Germania Inferior...
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be traced back to modern locations. Hermans also investigated the Hercules Magusanus votive stone found near Sint-Michielsgestel. Hermans was also involved...
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became part of this development. Votive stones dedicated to the deity Hercules Magusanus were found on the territory of the Baetasii. Nederland in Den Romeinschen...
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found in 1514 an altar dedicated both to the Germanic god Magusanus and to the Roman god Hercules. Remboudsdorpe One of the 4 drowned villages of the quite...
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