Vertumnus
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/183048
- Name (English)
- Vertumnus
- Short name
- Vertumnus
- Short Description
- "In Roman mythology, Vertumnus (Latin pronunciation: [ˈwɛrtʊmnʊs]; also Vortumnus or Vertimnus) is the god of seasons, change and plant growth, as well as gardens and fruit trees. He could change his form at will; using this power, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses (xiv), he tricked Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman and gaining entry to her orchard, then using a narrative warning of the dangers of rejecting a suitor (the embedded tale of Iphis and Anaxarete) to seduce her. The tale of Vertumnus and Pomona has been called "the first exclusively Latin tale."" - (en.wikipedia.org 23.07.2022)
- Entity Encoding
- pxg
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