what is the difference between roman and greek gods?

Question

other than the titles?

Answer 1

The differences between myths and legends
In common parlance the stories of the Greek and Roman deities and heroes are indiscriminately referred to as myths and legends. If we wish to be more careful, however, we can differentiate between the two types of story, and between them and folktales and fairy tales, although a story may shift between these different categories, or may contain elements from each of them.
Briefly, we can say that a myth gives a religious explanation for something: how the world or a particular custom began. There is usually no attempt to fix the myth into a coherent chronology related to the present day, though myths or a cycle of myths may have their own internal chronology. The story is timeless in that the events are symbolic rather than just the way it happened.

In calling a story a myth we are expressing no opinion about whether it is true or not. In the days, when, at least publicly, Christianity was assumed to be true and other religions false by those writing about religion (say, the 19th and early 20th centuries), the specialists' use of the word myth was closer to the popular use to mean an untrue religious story, and it was only used for other people's religion. As anthropologists and students of religion came to take a more impartial view of the world, it was recognised that certain Christian stories shared many of the features of myth, and could be called myths if the idea that a myth was necessarily false was shed.

A legend, on the other hand, is a story which is told as if it were a historical event, rather than as an explanation for something or a symbolic narrative. The legend may or may not be an elaborated version of a historical event. Thus, examples of legends are the stories about Robin Hood, which are set in a definite period, the reign of Richard I of England (1189-99), or about King Arthur, which were perhaps originally based on the exploits of a Romano-Celtic prince who attempted to resist the expansion of the Anglo-Saxons in what was to become England. The stories about Robin Hood and King Arthur have been elaborated and expanded on down the years.

While myths and legends may be transmitted orally or in writing, folk tales tend to be transmitted orally, and although they are transmitted from generation to generation and so their origin or author is unknown, they are more definitely felt to be stories, i.e., fiction. Many European folktales were written down in the 19th century, and some at least were transformed into fairy tales, which tend to be more consciously literary productions with a definite author, such as Hans Christian Andersen. Typically, folk and fairy tales involve magic and magical creatures and people such as witches, dragons and dwarves rather than religion. Examples are Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk.

Answer 2

Here's a short chart:
http://library.thinkquest.org/5679/comparin.htm

The Greek culture was there first. When it fell, Romans just incorporated the Greek characters under Roman names.

The Greeks focused on life versus afterlife. They believed that man's worth is determined by his actions during his life, and that his true immortality was in the remembrance of his gifts to the world. They revered the art of the individual. They revered the words of the poet. They revered the individual's traits, his personality, and his interaction with other people that spoke for his self-worth. Greek Gods and Goddesses are based on human personality traits - such as Love, Honor, Dignity, and Hatred - and their actions in myths are symbolic of the actions of men.

Romans were more disciplined than the Greeks (at least initially before they became a corrupt and weak society), and focused on actions rather than words.

Romans held up the warrior as the epitome, and rewarded bravery. Though they were so very warlike, oddly and ironically, they frequently had well educated Greek slaves to educate their children.

If you look closely at various parallel myths, you will see differences based on these perspectives.

Answer 3

there names

Answer 4

Not much of a differences if you look at it in a macro perspective:

Egyptians used to have different gods for different subjects ( birth, death, judgment etc)...then they were conquered by the greeks, who pretty much substituted the names and physical appearance of these gods in order to imposse their culture over the epyptians...then the greeks were conquered by the romans, and pretty much they did the same.

That is why if you look objectively the 3 different cultures youll find tremendous similitudes amog them...even Christianity (which came after the Romans) has a lot of resemblancy with egiptian believes ( eg. Egiptians believed in The Holly Trinity, in Judgement Day, in that Rah is everywhere etc. etc.)

Answer 5

Actually:
Many pantheons are similar. You can draw parallels between Finnish and Aztec mythology or Chinese and Egyptian mythology.
Roman and Greek are very close as the cultures mingled for a long time.

Many of the things not understood by people long ago were explained as acts of the gods such as why the sun rose each day and why people die.

Answer 6

greek gods were like in the image of man and romans taken after greeks

Answer 7

Not much. I believe the Romans stole all of their ideas from the Greeks.

Answer 8

Greek Gods have better names.

Answer 9

The difference would be Greeks and Italians

Answer 10

It's like asking ' what is the difference between a dog and a dog'.

Maybe not, excuse my sarcasm.

They are completely the same gods, but with alternated names, let me give you some examples.

Poseidon - Neptune

Heres - Mars

Aphrodite-Venus