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Definition of Graeco-Roman deity
1. Noun. A deity of classical mythology.
Generic synonyms: Deity, Divinity, God, Immortal
Specialized synonyms: Nymph, Latona, Leto
Specialized synonyms: Aesculapius, Asclepius, Asklepios, Bacchus, Priapus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Graeco-Roman Deity
Literary usage of Graeco-Roman deity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in by Elizabeth Hill Boone (1989)
"One tradition saw Huitzilopochtli along the lines of a Graeco-Roman deity.
The other was based in the Christian analogue, whereby Huitzilopochtli, ..."
2. The Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ: An by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1906)
"As deities of nature, of course they all had certain traits in common, and where
a god failed to correspond with a Graeco-Roman deity, the difficulty was ..."
3. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1918)
"144-51. 22. Adam of Bremen, iii. 50; Helmold, i. 23. 23- i- 52. 24. Cited by A.
Bruckner, in ASP vi. 220-22 (1882). 25. Priapus was a Graeco-Roman deity ..."
4. Celtic Mythology by John Arnott MacCulloch, Jan Máchal, Louis Herbert Gray (1918)
"Priapus was a Graeco-Roman deity of fertility who was represented in obscene form
and worshipped licentiously; for Baal-peor cf. Numbers xxv. 1-5, Hosea ix. ..."
5. Celtic Mythology by John Arnott MacCulloch, Jan Máchal, Louis Herbert Gray (1918)
"Priapus was a Graeco-Roman deity of fertility who was represented in obscene form
and worshipped licentiously; for Baal-peor cf. Numbers xxv. 1-5, Hosea ix. ..."
6. Guide to the Public Collections of Classical Antiquities in Rome by Wolfgang Helbig, Emil Reisch (1896)
"The bust evidently represents some Graeco-Roman deity, furnished with various
symbols of the cult of Mithras (comp. vol. i, pp. 478 et seq. ..."
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