Mors (mythology)
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Mors (mythology)
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In ancient Roman myth and literature, Letus is the personification of death equivalent to the Greek Thanatos. The Latin noun for "death," mors, genitive mortis, is of feminine gender, but surviving ancient Roman art is not known to depict death as a woman. Latin poets, however, are bound by the grammatical gender of the word. Horace writes of pallida Mors, "pale Death," who kicks her way into the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings equally. Seneca, for whom Mors is also pale, describes he
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Personification of death in Roman mythology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mors_(mythology)
date created:
2006-07-26T21:52:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T01:19:57Z
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