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Neptune (mythology)

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] Salacia is his wife.

For the planet named after him, see Neptune.

Neptune

Neptunus

Sea

Horse, trident, dolphin

Neptunalia; Lectisternium

Saturn and Ops

Jupiter, Pluto, Juno, Ceres, Vesta

Salacia

Poseidon

Nechtan[1]

Depictions of Neptune in Roman mosaics, especially those in North Africa, were influenced by Hellenistic conventions.[5] He was likely associated with freshwater springs before the sea.[6] Like Poseidon, he was also worshipped by the Romans as a god of horses, as Neptunus equestris (a patron of horse-racing).[7][8]

Agnolo Bronzino, Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (c. 1530s or 1540s)

Painting of a 16th-century Genoese ruler as resembling Neptune

Bartolomeo Ammannati, Fountain of Neptune, Florence

Fountain with a statue of Neptune in a Florence square

Late-16th-century bronze statue in Valletta, Malta

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Antoine Coysevox's Neptune (1705) in the LouvreAlt

Marble statue of Neptune making a horse spring from the earth

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Neptune Offering Gifts to Venus (1748–1750)

Painting of Neptune offering coins to Venus from a horn

Juan Pascual de Mena, Fuente de Neptuno, Madrid (1780–1784)

Fountain with statue of Neptune atop a two-horse shell chariot with a water wheel

Constantino Brumidi, detail from The Apotheosis of Washington (1865), U.S. Capitol dome

Painting of Neptune with an ironclad ship and people laying the transatlantic telegraph cable

Neptune tobacco label (1860–1870)

Tobacco label with a crowned Neptune, two nymphs and his shell chariot

Neptune fountain in Nuremberg

Bronze fountain in a Nuremberg park

Neptune Monument in Gdańsk

Fountain in a town square

Berlin's Neptunbrunnen

Neptune fountain, with a church in the background

Neptune monument in La Coruña, (Spain)

Neptune monument in La Coruña, (Spain)

Bloch, Raymond (1981). "Quelques remarques sur Poseidon, Neptunus et Nethuns". Comptes-rendus des séances de l' Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Letres. Vol. 2. pp. 341–352.

Nancy Thomson De Grummond 2006. Etruscan Mythology, Sacred History and Legend: An Introduction, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology,  1-931707-86-3.

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Georges Dumézil 1977. La religione romana arcaica. Con un 'appendice sulla religione degli Etruschi Edizione e traduzione a cura di Furio Jesi: Milano Rizzoli (Italian translation conducted on an expanded version of the 2nd edition of La religion romaine archaïque Paris Payot 1974).

Fowler, William Warde (1912). The Religious experience of the Roman People. London.{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Sarolta A. Takacs 2008. Vestal Virgins, Sibyls and Matronae: Women in Roman Religion, University of Texas Press.

Georg Wissowa 1912. Religion und Kultus der Rőmer Munich.

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Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (ca 600 images of Neptune)

, ed. (1911). "Neptune" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 385.

Chisholm, Hugh