I need that information for a research , so if you could help me I'll be grateful..
2006-12-11 23:05:57 · 13 answers · asked by chelushka 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
**The Greek gods had more powers than mortals could even imagine. They could change day to night, turn people into animals, and punish men with eternal torture. Their whims and desires changed the course of human destiny. No legends are more fabulous than those of the Greek gods.
**At the founding of Rome, the gods were 'numina', divine manifestations, faceless, formless, but no less powerful. The idea of gods as anthropomorphized beings came later, with the influence from Etruscans and Greeks, which had human form. Some of the Roman Gods are at least as old as the founding of Rome.
2006-12-11 23:15:24 · answer #1 · answered by cuttiiee 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Lots and lots. I'll pull the one I know best, Ares/Mars, as an example. Ares, Greek god of war was...pretty much the god of war. When the Romans got to him and turned him into Mars, he took on a lot of other aspects--though still a god of war, he was actually most worshipped as a god of agriculture.
You're looking at two very different societies, with very different cultures and different needs. The Greek gods tend more towards the conceptualization of a single idea--war, love, death, etc. The Romans, not as big on thinkers but a very practical people, found that the same gods could hold a multitude of ideas and used them more in daily life.
2006-12-12 08:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Romans were very good at adapting other cultures to suit there own , the only real difference is there names , they adapted the gods that had the same direction to fit and changed the name were there was no equivalent they just gave them a new name . they did the same with Egyptian gods later on in time
2006-12-12 12:03:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The roman god were duplications of the origenal greek gods. The Romans just swapped and changed the names about a bit.
2006-12-12 07:08:32 · answer #4 · answered by siany warny 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
None the Romans just changed the names of the Greek gods the same way that the christians renamed what are basically pagan gods and made them into such mythical and non existant entities as god, jesus, mary etc.
2006-12-12 16:17:20 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen P 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Romans had their own deities but also had a very interesting way of dealing with the various pantheons of deities of the peoples they met, interacted with, and usually ended up subjugating.
They made sure they always paid homage to those deities.
Some might say out of fear or respect.
I have a different theory however.
If they prayed to your God as fervently as you did....... and they were beating you on the field of battle (which they usually did anyway).... that would kind of "snuff out" any religious movement later on.
After all,,,, you both prayed to the same God and that Deity ended up listening to the Romans......
Kind of early psychological warfare, ain't it?
2006-12-12 07:23:01 · answer #6 · answered by wolf560 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One set are Roman and the other Greek....hope that helps!
2006-12-12 10:57:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Greeks stole many of the Egyptians gods and the Roman stole almost all of the Greeks gods. The only differences were their names and who was change to who..............................
2006-12-12 07:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
lets see ummm...roman gods have different names....as in ceres is the roman name for demeter....i think that's the only one bacause romans adopted greek gods
2006-12-12 07:17:09 · answer #9 · answered by CBroxmysox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The primary difference is that Roman Gods were those of Italians and Greek Gods were those of the Grecian people. They were mythologies spawned by two different Mediterranean cultures.
2006-12-12 07:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋