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The Roman deities most widely known today are those the Romans identified with Greek counterparts, integrating Greek myths, iconography, and sometimes religious practices into Roman culture, including Latin literature, Roman art, and religious life as it was experienced throughout the Roman Empire. Many of the Romans' own gods remain obscure ...
Classical mythology, also known as Greco-Roman mythology or Greek and Roman mythology, is the collective body and study of myths from the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans. Mythology, along with philosophy and political thought , is one of the major survivals of classical antiquity throughout later, including modern, Western culture . [ 1 ]
Maison carrée, Nîmes, France, one of the best preserved Roman temples. This is a list of ancient Roman temples, built during antiquity by the people of ancient Rome or peoples belonging to the Roman Empire. Roman temples were dedicated to divinities from the Roman pantheon.
See also Wikipedia's categories of Greek goddesses, Greek gods, and Roman goddesses Subcategories ... Deified ancient Roman men (2 C, 7 P) H. Helper gods of Ceres (12 P)
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period. Roman mythology ...
In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Tellus, Terra or Tierra [a] ("Mother Earth") is the personification of the Earth.Although Tellus and Terra are hardly distinguishable during the Imperial era, [1] Tellus was the name of the original earth goddess in the religious practices of the Republic or earlier.
Deified ancient Roman people (3 C) Dii Consentes ... Personifications in Roman mythology (5 C, 53 P) R. Roman temples by deity (11 C, 52 ... List of Roman ...
The Dii Consentes, also known as Di or Dei Consentes (once Dii Complices [1]), or The Harmonious Gods, is an ancient list of twelve major deities, six gods and six goddesses, in the pantheon of Ancient Rome. Their gilt statues stood in the Roman Forum, and later apparently in the Porticus Deorum Consentium. [2]