adapt Greek myths and iconography under the names of their own gods. Interpretatio romana is comparative discourse in reference to ancient Roman religion and...

paucity of evidence for a widespread interpretatio germanica, as opposed to the well-attested opposite interpretatio romana, and notes that comparison with...

similarly monstrous dog Garmr during the events of Ragnarök. The interpretatio romana generally renders the god as Mars, the ancient Roman war god, and...

goddess. She was identified by Roman commentators with Minerva by interpretatio romana. The Gaulish theonym Belesama has been traditionally interpreted...

main sanctuary located at Aquileia, on the Adriatic coast. Through interpretatio romana, Belenus was often identified with Apollo, although his cult seems...

better attested Gaulish deity; perhaps the god described in the interpretatio Romana as Mercury or Dis Pater, which are considered to share Cernunnos's...

Camulus or Camulos is a Celtic deity who was identified with Mars via interpretatio romana. Camulus was an important god of Roman Britain and Gaul, especially...

manifestations or aspects of their own gods, a cultural trait called the interpretatio romana. Mercury, in particular, was reported as becoming extremely popular...

what he deems as an "Isis" of the Suebi. Due to Tacitus's usage of interpretatio romana elsewhere in the text, his admitted uncertainty, and his reasoning...

as Tacitus equating the Germanic Þunraz with Hercules by way of interpretatio romana. In the Roman era Hercules' Club amulets appear from the 2nd to 3rd...

erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva (possibly due to interpretatio romana). The church is located in Piazza della Minerva one block east the...

"tradition", viewed as central to Roman identity. Through interpretatio graeca and interpretatio romana, the religions of other peoples incorporated into the...

developments of Romanization in other less-studied Roman provinces. Interpretatio romana offered Roman names for Gaulish deities such as the smith-god Gobannus...

and the Celtic god Lugus (perhaps identified with Mercury by the interpretatio romana). Hollard and Gricourt, for example, identify the figure as Lugus...

Gauls all claimed descent from Dis Pater. This is an example of interpretatio romana: what Caesar meant was that the Gauls all claimed descent from a...

Interpretatio Romana Gaulish, British, & Celtiberian Welsh Old Irish Apollo Belenus Borvo Grannus Beli Mawr Bel Apollo Maponos Mabon Maccan     Brân Bran...

cultural assimilation which made the Roman Empire possible"; entry on "Interpretatio romana," in Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia (ABC-Clio, 2006),...

to have drawn up descriptions of their journey. Furthermore, the interpretatio romana of the Alcis as equivalent to Castor and Polux was probably done...

Donar's Oak (also Thor's Oak or, via interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what...

ideas as other nations.: 33–34  Caesar here employs the device of interpretatio romana, in which foreign gods are equated with those of the Roman pantheon...

that their existence in the literature is more likely a result of interpretatio romana than anything else (although one should remember that the Irish Dagda...

(Gallo-Roman and Romano-British) religion of Late Antiquity. Through interpretatio Romana, she was identified with the goddesses Minerva, Tyche/Fortuna, and...

that Hallaton may have been a site of worship of the god Toutatis. Interpretatio Romana Germanic Mercury 4179 Toutatis Maier, Bernhard (1997). Dictionary...

frequently identified with Thor by the Romans due to the practice of interpretatio romana. Comparisons have been made between the Irminsul and the Jupiter...

Renaissance. Hence Jupiter=Zeus; Neptune= Poseidon, and so forth. See Interpretatio Romana. P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri ed. Giovanni Baptista Pighi, Turin...

became conflated with the Roman agricultural goddess Ceres through interpretatio romana. The worship of Demeter has formally merged with that of Ceres around...

popular among the Batavians. Hercules Magusanus was probably an interpretatio romana translation of the Germanic deity Þunraz. Deusoniensis may refer...

the Germanic god of thunder, Thunraz, equivalent to Jupiter in the interpretatio romana. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god...

identified their own deities with Greek ones in what was called interpretatio Romana. However, the two deities were also considered separate by many;...

Albania and the rest of the Balkans, which gives reason to think of an interpretatio romana of an indigenous pre-Roman goddess. Innumerable Albanian folk poems...