The Romans

Learning Objective: To find out what the Romans believed and to investigate the gods and goddesses of ancient Rome.

www.planbee.com NEXT Religion was a part of everyday life in ancient Rome. The Romans didn’t believe in just one god but had many different gods and goddesses. They believed that the gods controlled different aspects of their lives and that the gods were all around them. As the Roman empire expanded, new gods were adopted into Roman religion. Many of the Roman gods were also the same as the ancient Greek gods except with different names.

BACK www.planbee.com NEXT The ancient Romans would go to the temple everyday to give offerings of meat and other gifts such as flowers to the gods. In the temples and in different places around the city there were also lots of statues of different gods and goddesses.

Remains of a Roman temple Statute of Venus, a Roman goddess

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Juno was the wife of Jupiter is the supreme Minerva was the Jupiter. She was the Roman god. He was goddess of wisdom. protector of Rome the son of Saturn. She was also the and guarded over Jupiter is the god of goddess of poetry, the finances of the light and sky. His medicine and empire. Her Greek Greek name is Zeus. warriors. Her Greek name is Hera. name is Athena.

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Vesta was the Ceres was the Diana was the goddess of the hearth. daughter of Saturn goddess of hunting She was worshipped in and Rhea. She was and the moon. She people’s homes and the goddess of was favoured by the was one of the most crops and motherly lower classes in popular deities. Her love. Her Greek Rome. Her Greek Greek name is Hestia. name is Demeter. name is Artemis.

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Venus was the Mars was the son of Merucry was originally goddess of love and Jupiter and Juno the god of trade and beauty although and was the Roman merchants but in later originally she was the god of war. He was times became the goddess of plants. Her a very popular god. messenger god just Greek name is His Greek name is like the Greek Aphrodite. Ares. Hermes.

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Vulcan was the Apollo was the god Neptune was the husband of Venus. He of healing , dance, brother of Jupiter and was the god of fire as prophecy and Pluto and the Roman well as the god of iron music. Apollo was god of the sea. His work, arms and armour. not originally a Greek name is His Greek name was Roman god but a Poseidon. Hephaestus. Greek god.

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