Orcus

Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto.

Key facts

Deity.name: Orcus
Deity.type: Roman
Deity.deity_of: God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths
Deity.member_of: the di selecti
Deity.image: Bomarzo2013parco21.jpg
Deity.caption: Orcus Mouth, a 16th-century folly in the Gardens of Bomarzo
Deity.other_names: Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)
Deity.abode: Hades, Underworld
Deity.gender: Male
Deity.Greek_equivalent: Horkos, Hades
Deity.Etruscan_equivalent: Orcus

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Commons category: Tomba dell’Orco (Tarquinia)
native label: Orcus

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Origins
Persistence and later usage
Ariosto
Tolkien
Other modern-era use
See also
Notes
References
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A temple to Orcus may once have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is likely that he was transliterated from the Greek daemon Horkos, the personification of oaths and a son of Eris.