Roman Influence On Greek Culture

The Roman’s adopted many parts of the Greek culture as their own.
Starting with their religion, they took the Greek’s gods and renamed them. First, The Capitoline triad was introduced during the 6th century B.C. The first being Jupiter who was the roman equivalent of what the Greeks knew as Zeus. Then Juno, Who’s Greek equivalent was Hera. and Minerva resembled the Greek goddess, Athena. Later, towards the end of the 5th century B.C., many more gods from the Greek religion were introduced. Diana, who was a lot like Artemis, Mercury who was the roman equivalent of Hermes, Then there is Neptune, Who was the essentially the same god as Poseidon, Venus, who is the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite, Vulcan who was the equivalent of Hephaestus and last