Amun in Greece Period

Zeus (picture of Amun in Greece Period)

Amun taken a temple and a statue, the talent of Pindar (d. 443 BC), at Thebes, and  opposite  at  Sparta,  the  indweller  of  which,  as Pausanias says, conferred with the oracle of God Amun in Libya from early times more than the other Greeks. At Aphytis, Chalcidice, Amun was worshipped, from the time of Lysander (d. 395 BC), as zealously as in Ammonium.  Pindar  the  poet  respected  the  god  with  a  hymn.  At Megalopolis  the  god  was  described  with  the  head  of  a  ram, and the Greeks of Cyrenaica dedicated at Delphi a chariot with a statue of Amun God.

Such was its report among the Classical Greeks that Alexander the Macedonian journeyed  there  after  the  battle  of  Issus  and  during  his occupation of Egypt, where he was express "the son of Amun" by the prophet.  Alexander  thenceforth  taken  himself  divine.  Even  during this  occupation,  Amun,  named  by  these  Greeks  as  a  form  of Zeus, continued to be the serious local deity of Thebes.

Several words derive from Amun via the Greek shape, Amun, such as ammonia and ammonite. The Romans named the ammonium chloride they  gathered  from  deposits  near  the  Temple  of  Jupiter  Amun  in ancient Libya sal ammoniacus (salt of Amun) because of propinquity to the nearby temple. Ammonia, as well as being the chemical, is a knees name in the foraminifera. Both these foraminiferans (crushed Protozoa) and ammonites (extinct shelled cephalopods) bear spiral plates resembling a ram's, and Amun's, horns. The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are visited the cornu ammonis literally "Amun's Horns", attributable to the horned show of the dark and light bands of multicellular layers.