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In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...

A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?

and moral values by passing down mythological tales of powerful yet fallible Greek gods and goddesses. Some of these figures — Adonis, Orion, Athena — have lived on not only through stories ...

The Olympian gods and goddesses incarnated human qualities ... some later representations of Aphrodite. This is a Roman marble replica of a Greek bronze original. H. Lewandowski/RMN-Grand Palais ...

This was a key state deity, a colossal figure that protected the state, along with so many gods and goddesses that were ... which also figures heavily in Roman religion for the subjects of empire.

Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods ... the goddess of the hunt, ...

According to Hamilton, he shows up more often in Greek mythology than any other god. As goddess of the harvest, Demeter’s story provided the Greeks with an explanation for why we have seasons. When ...