Religion In Greek Mythology

One of the most important matters at that time was religion. Indeed, the respect of the pietas (roman virtue to respect the religious rites and procedures) was really important in Ancient Rome. Many people confound the Greek mythology with the Roman mythology and so because their pantheon is approximately the same with different names. We have to say that the Romans really liked the Greek mythology and so took it and transformed it with Roman names. The Greeks and the Romans had a polytheistic religion, just like most of ancient cultures such as the Egyptians, or the Persians. The Greek religion consisted of a vast number of Gods and Goddesses, each representing their own aspect of life, or responsible for an emotion or object. Around 500 BC, when the Romans were ascending in power and the Greeks descending, Greek colonies moved to Italy where their religion was absorbed by the Roman people. Even in the myth of the foundation of Rome it was inspired from the Greeks, indeed Virgil’s (70-19 BC) Aeneid is highly inspired by the Iliad and the Odyssey of the Greek epic poet Homer. Ovid’s (43 BC-17 AD) Metamorphoses were also just a retranscription of Greek myths. Indeed, the whole Greek mythology was transformed to fit with the Roman names but all the stories stayed the same. Their pantheon was …show more content…
Latin literature was in many ways a continuation of Greek literature, just as we saw above with Virgil’s and Ovid’s works. Many Greek masterpieces were translated in Latin, like it is the case of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Greek dramas were translated and reworked to be new Latin versions. One of the most famous Latin tragic poet of all time was Lucius Accius (170-86 BC), he wrote many tragedies inspired by Euripides (480-406 BC) and Aeschylus (525/524-456-455 BC) and was really admired by the Romans, notably by Cicero (106-43 BC), Horace and Velleius Paterculus (19 BC-31