Ancient Story About Rome

People often think that Jupiter, King of the Roman Gods, and Zeus, King of the Greek Gods, are the same god.  

But the truth is that Jupiter was as different from Zeus as the ancient Romans were from the ancient Greeks.

The Romans worshiped thousands of gods. As they expanded their empire, they discovered new gods from the people they conquered. When they ran into a god (or goddess) they liked, they adopted him (or her.) When they heard about the Greek gods, they adopted nearly all of them.

They gave the Greek gods Roman names, and acted as if they had been Roman gods all along.

But they did more than that. The ancient Romans changed some of the Greek myths to better reflect Roman beliefs. They changed some of the Greek gods' personalities to better reflect the Roman way of life. This did not happen overnight.

In Roman mythology, for example, Jupiter rarely, if ever, came down to earth. He ruled from the heavens above, and his word was final. (The Greek God Zeus, on the other hand, was forever showing up on earth in disguise, and had a great time doing it. He was terrified of his wife Hera, and somewhat ruled himself by the Fates.)

Juno, the Queen of all the Roman Gods, was motherly. Her job was to watch over the women of Rome. When she wasn't doing that, she was busy with her own children and her own household. (Hera, the Queen of all the Greek gods, was jealous and petty. When she wasn't keeping an eagle eye on Zeus, she was plotting  against any god or mortal who had angered her.)

The truth about myths is that they change with the storyteller, the civilization, the times, and the translation.

Still, the Greek myths were so wonderful that the ancient Roman storytellers and poets and writers might change some them, to bring them closer to the Roman way of life, but overall, they left quite a few of them very close to the way they found them, and treated the ancient Greek myths as great stories, which indeed they are!

            Outside of the Roman stadium coliseum

        Inside of the Roman stadium coliseum

Ancient Story About Greece

The ancient Greeks were great storytellers. They were also deeply religious. They believed their  gods and goddesses and other magical beings really existed. They believed these magical beings could interfere in their lives, to help them or to hurt them.  

The ancient Greeks built temples to honor their gods. Each temple honored only one god. So there were many, many temples in ancient Greece.

The ancient Greeks told stories about their gods. These stories are called myths (short for mythology, or stories about gods.) Some myths were so good that they have been told over and over, and still are told today. Some are new myths about the ancient Greek mystical world.  

The thing about myths is that the gods' adventures might change, but the characters remained consistent. Zeus was always the king of all the gods. His wife, Hera, was always jealous. Poseidon, his brother, always ruled the sea. His other brother, Hades, always ruled the Underworld. His sisters ruled the harvest and the home. Their kids ran everything else.

All the gods had magical powers, although not all the gods had the same powers. Whatever powers they had were consistent from story to story. For example, Zeus and only Zeus could throw lightning bolts. But many gods had the ability to shape shift - to change their shape or the shape of others. Some gods could turn into animals, and when they did, you could not tell the difference between a real animal and a god who had shape-shifted.  

This magical world was a real world, at least it was to the ancient Greek people, a world full of bickering and fights and wars and compromise and fear and fun and punishment and love. Many myths were based on the fact that gods, like mortal men, could be punished or rewarded for their actions.   

The ancient Greece family tree of there God’s

Zeus king of the God’s ancient Greece

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