Back Uranos Afrikaans Urán (mitolochía) AN أورانوس (أسطورة) Arabic اورانوس (ميثولوجيا) ARZ ইউৰেনাচ (গ্ৰীক দেৱতা) Assamese Uranu (mitoloxía) AST Uran (mifologiya) Azerbaijani Уран (мифология) Bashkir Uranos BAR Уран (бог) Byelorussian
| Uranus | |
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Personification of the Sky and The Heavens | |
&sq=&lang=en&file=File:Altar_P%C3%A9rgamo_Urano_01.JPG) Uranus depicted on the Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum | |
| Abode | Sky |
| Planet | Uranus |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | Gaia (Hesiod) |
| Siblings | Pontus and the Ourea (Hesiod) |
| Consort | Gaia |
| Children | The Titans, the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Erinyes (Furies), the Giants, the Meliae, and Aphrodite[1] |
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| Primordial deities |
In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ˈjʊərənəs/ YOOR-ə-nəs, also /jʊˈreɪnəs/ yoo-RAY-nəs),[2] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. 'sky', [uːranós]), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities. According to Hesiod, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia (Earth), with whom he fathered the first generation of Titans. However, no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into classical times,[3] and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky, and Styx might be joined, however, in solemn invocation in Homeric epic.[4] The translation of his name in Latin is Caelus.[5][6][7]
- ^ According to Hesiod, Theogony 183–200, Aphrodite was born from Uranus's severed genitals, but according to Homer, Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus (Iliad 3.374, 20.105; Odyssey 8.308, 320) and Dione (Iliad 5.370–71), see Gantz, pp. 99–100.
- ^ "Uranus". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d.
- ^ "We did not regard them as being in any way worthy of worship," Karl Kerenyi, speaking for the ancient Greeks, said of the Titans (Kerenyi, p. 20); "with the single exception, perhaps, of Cronos; and with the exception, also, of Helios."
- ^ As at Homer, Iliad 15.36 ff., Odyssey 5.184 ff.
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Caelus, pp. 83–84.
- ^ Varro, De lingua Latina 5.58.
- ^ Marion Lawrence, "The Velletri Sarcophagus", American Journal of Archaeology 69.3 (1965), p. 220.