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Uranus (Greek deity)

LC control no.no2021078156
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingUranus (Greek deity)
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Variant(s)Ouranos (Greek deity)
Sky (Greek deity)
Οὐρανός (Greek deity)
Associated countryGreece
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inMarkus Lüpertz : Uranos, 2018: title page (sculpture)
Classics Digital Library Collection, 2001 (Uranus (Greek deity))
Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.) online, June 28, 2021 (Uranus (Greek: Ouranos); the divine personification of the sky in Greece)
Who's who in classical mythology, 1973: p. 413 (Uranus; Greek Ouranos, or 'sky'. After Earth was born out of Chaos, she produced Uranus without the aid of a male. She then mated with Uranus and their offspring was the Titans)
Brill's New Pauly online, June 28, 2021 (Uranus; Οὐρανός = Ouranos; divine personification of the sky, treated by Hesiodus (Theog. 126-128) as a mythical figure)
Theoi.com WW site, June 28, 2021 (Okeanos (Oceanus); the primordial Titan god of the great, earth-encircling River Okeanos, font of all of the earth's fresh-water-rivers, wells, springs and rain-clouds; he was also the god who regulated the heavenly bodies which rose from and set into his waters)
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