Mitologias
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Comparison chart
Greek Gods versus Roman Gods comparison chart
study and interpretation of such myths.” A long time ago mythology was
something treated with respect. People respected and believed in it. The two
major mythologies known are Greek and Roman. What are the similarities and
The Roman mythology has two types of creation. Certain people believe it was
created around the 12th century BC, after the war between Greece and Asia.
The legend says that after the war, Aeneas, a very strong and popular soldier
of the Greek royal army, won the battle against Asia but then decided to leave
for Carthage. There, the Queen Dido fell in love with him but Aeneas left her to
travel to Italy, where he found Rome. From there, Aeneas knowing the gods
from his culture decided to create a new mythology with new gods.
The other type of creation of the Roman mythology consists of two men from
Greece, Romulus and Remus, who were the sons of the God Mars and a mortal
woman named Rhea Silvia. These two brothers lived with their uncle. When
their parents died the uncle decided to kill the two brothers so he could receive
the power of their father, the God Mars. In the conflict, Remus died but
Romulus escaped to a new city named Rome, where he became its first king.
“The date that Romulus founded Rome was 753 BC” (Varro).
There were several more gods in the Roman Mythology. There were 21
considered very important for the people because they represented earth and
the living on earth. They were pictured that way because they were related to
the rain or the water, but also to feelings and beliefs, like peace and prosperity
at home. Jupiter and Minerva were the rulers of the 19 other gods. Each of
them had a specific role in the mythology. Honored by the people, these gods
imagination of the people. Or sometimes people used to tell stories about how
a god was beautiful. “Physical appearance wasn’t given to Roman Gods until
According to Varro, the Romans worshipped their gods on both individual and
communal levels. Individual would be a family that would pray at home for
more food and the communal level was when a group of people, most of the
time the citizens of a town, would go and meet for a communal celebration.
For instance, the goddess Vesta protected the earth so when people wanted to
honor her, they would throw a small cake into the fire. Or to honor the god of
agriculture, so the harvest could be generous, farmers would offer corn meal
The Greek Mythology was created long time before the Roman Mythology.
Around the years of 2000 BC, Atlantis rose up, created by Timaus and Critias,
a powerful man and woman, whose origin no one knows. God Timaus and the
Goddess Critias are cited in many stories about the beginning of the Greek
Mythology. Like the Roman Mythology people presume that it was created from
beliefs of ancient population that lived before them. A personal opinion about
the creation of the Greek Mythology would be that it was created from the
Egyptians who lived before them and also believed in different gods. If we
pretend that the Romans took the idea for their mythology from the Greek
Mythology, we can suppose that the Greek Mythology was created from
Like the Roman Mythology, the Greek one was composed of 21 gods and
goddesses. Compared to the Roman, the Greek gods were represented with
gorgeous bodies, where muscles, eyes, faces an hair would give them the most
or non-living thing.
Honoring Greek gods was similar to Roman’s way of worship. People used to bring meals to
either Mount Olympus, where gods lived or to the graves of family members who died. Drawing
a symbol of a god in a hall of the house could represent that the family needed help of a god. In
the family, if a son were sick the father would draw an object representing the Goddess Hygeia,
so she could enter the house and cure the young child.
The Roman and the Greek gods seem to relate to each other. A similarity between the two
mythologies is that the symbols and designations of powers are the same in the two. The
differences are present in the date of creation. Also, for both mythologies we don’t know where
and how were they created because there is more than one story that describes their beginning.