Roman Mythology

Mercury

Mercury

Jupiter

Pomona She is a uniquely Roman goddess, never identitified with any Greek counterpart, and was particularly associated with the blossoming of trees versus the harvest. In 19th century statues and building decorations she is usually shown carrying either a large platter of fruit or a cornucopia.

Flora (Goddess of flowers)

Mars

Heracles

Venus

VULCAN

The future and the past

FERTILITY AND MARRIAGE

Damocles

CUPID

Flora (Goddess of flowers)

VULCAN

Pyramus and Thisbe The tale is told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses

NEPTUNE

Uranus

VENUS

Hilaritas

Janus

Fortuna

Walnuts

Atlas

Mercury- the messenger of the gods

Pax

Saturday after Saturn

Caligula

Romulus and Remus

Venus

Wisdom

MINERVA

A ghost: A photo taken in Sept 1936 in Raynham Hall (Norwich) for Country Life magazine by Capt. Provand and Indre Shira. In the photo one ‘sees’ a veiled ghost like woman descending the steps. Perhaps the ghost of Lady Dorothy Townsend. Although her death certificate states 1726, many suspect her husband sealed her in a room somewhere in the manor due to infidelity.
In 1713, Lord Townshend married Walpole’s prettiest sister, Dorothy. She was his second wife, and is reputed in the gossip of the time to have been previously the mistress of Lord Wharton, “whose character was so infamous, and his lady’s complaisant subserviency so notorious, that no young woman could be four and twenty hours under their roof with safety to her reputation.” Lady Townshend was buried in 1726. But there is a tradition that she did not die in that year and that the funeral was a mock interment. Instead, she is rumoured to have been locked up in the house by her husband. This is why the ghost of “Dolly” Townshend, the “little brown lady of Raynham,” is said still to haunt the oak staircase of the house in the twilight. Currently, a famous ghost picture is said to be her, being known as the most famous picture of a ghost to date. Experts have, however, largely dismissed the photo as a fake, being merely a composite (superimposition) of the staircase and a quite ordinary Madonna statue as might be found in any Catholic church. The inverted “V” visible at the bottom of her image is absolutely typical of such statues (it is the hem line between her overgarment and her undergarment), and another, fainter, inverted “V” is simply her forearms as she prays with her hands together. The pedestal upon which she stands is also visible

PROPHECY

Saturn

Irene

Pleasure – or Volupta in Latin.

Fruit Trees

Mars.

ULYSSES

NEPTUNE

VESTA

MARS

PERSEPHONE (PROSERPINE IN ROMAN MYTH)

JANUS

CUPID

ROMULAS

JANUS