Mythology Roman

ORIGIN OF NAME Named for the mythological Roman god of travel, Mercurius, the messenger to other gods. Its symbol Hg Is from the Latin word hydrargyrus, meaning "liquid silver."... 

Copper (Cu, [Kr idU)Asl), name and symbol from Latinaes cyprium (later cuprum), from the island Cyprus, which was a source of this metal for the Romans. The use of copper dates back to prehistoric times. In mythology and alchemy copper was associated with the goddess Venus because of its lustrous reddish colour and one of its earliest applications, which is mirrors. 

Uranium - the atomic number is 92 and the chemical symbol is U. The name derives from the planet Uranus, which in Roman mythology was Father Heaven . The German chemist Martin-Heinrich Klaproth discovered the element in 1789, following the German/English astronomer William Hershel s discovery of the planet in 1781. The metal was first isolated by the French chemist Eugene-Melchior Peligot in 1841. 

The Romans also imbued opium with mythical meanings. Roman mythology was full of references to the effects of opium. Somnus, the Roman god of sleep, was often envisaged as a boy carrying a handful of opium plants. Geres, the goddess of fertility, used the drug as a pain reliever. Perhaps the best evidence of... 

Mercury is a metallic chemical element identified by the symbol Hg on the periodic table. It is silver in color and, unlike other metals, is liquid at room temperature. The ancient name for mercury was quicksilver, meaning living silver. This name reflected mercury s lustrous silver color and its unusually lively behavior when it is poured onto a smooth surface, it forms beads that roll rapidly around. The element s modem name comes from Mercury (or Mercurius), the fleet-footed messenger of the gods in Roman mythology. 

The Greeks and the Romans saw it differently. In classical mythology, Venus (Aphrodite to the Greeks) was the goddess of love and beauty. She was the lover of Adonis (and others), the constant companion of the winged god Eros, and the unfaithful wife of the god Vulcan, who caught her in bed with her favorite paramour, Mars, the god of war. 

To the ancient Romans, Mars was the god of war, and many festivals were held in his honor. Ares, the Greek equivalent, was not admired. Throughout Greek mythology, Ares is constantly put down by the other gods — except for Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, who adores him. 

In mythology, Saturn was originally an Italian corn god. The Romans identified him with the Greek god Kronos, who swallowed his own children and was in turn conquered by them. He s known as Father Time, the symbol of the past and the old order. 

The second paper, by the first two authors of the first paper, named the condition fetal alcohol syndrome and added three more cases.9 Its short historical review pointed out that the association between maternal alcoholism and faulty development of the offspring is alluded to in early Greek and Roman mythology. ... 

Transmutation of base metals into silver or gold is ultimately achieved through projection —an unexplainable process that could occur at a distance— the red tincture projected from the heart of the red king (the red stone) onto his subjects, who personify the base metals. The basilisk (or cockatrice) (Figure 54) is a serpent of Roman mythology. Some versions have it hatched by a serpent from an egg laid by a cock. Others view it as a poisonous mixture of cock and... 

Greek and Roman mythologies include stories of giant creatures known as cyclops that have a single eye in the center of their forehead. Homer s Odyssey, for example, describes an encounter between the hero Odysseus and a cyclops named Polyphemus. What is amazing, however, is that these tales may well have a grain of truth. 

Plutonium Pluto, god of the dead in Roman mythology. A Latin counterpart of the Greek god Hades... 

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