The spear of Achilles is said by a few sources to be bifurcated. Roman-era mosaics show the bident for hare hunting ( Villa Romana del Casale, Sicily, ca. The bidens is pictured on mosaics and other forms of Roman art, as well as tombstones to mark the occupation of the deceased. It was used to break up and turn ground that was rocky and hard. In Roman agriculture, the bidens ( genitive bidentis) was a double-bladed drag hoe or two-pronged mattock, although a modern distinction between "mattock" and "rake" should not be pressed. Two-pronged weapons mainly of bronze appear in the archaeological record of ancient Greece. The word 'bident' was brought into the English language before 1871, and is derived from the Latin bidentis, meaning "having two teeth (or prongs)." Historical uses Īncient Egyptians used a bident as a fishing tool, sometimes attached to a line and sometimes fastened with flight feathers. Likewise, the three-pronged trident is the implement of his brother Poseidon ( Neptune), god of the seas and earthquakes, while the lightning bolt, which superficially appears to have a single main point or prong, is a symbol of their youngest brother, Zeus ( Jupiter), king of the gods and the sky. In Greek mythology, the bident is a weapon associated with Hades ( Pluto), the ruler of the underworld. Pluto holding a bident in a woodcut from the Gods and Goddesses series of Hendrick Goltzius (1588–1589)Ī bident is a two-pronged implement resembling a pitchfork.
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