Religion · Roman Empire Daily
Many Roman gods were matched to Greek ones: Jupiter to Zeus, Venus to Aphrodite, Mars to Ares.
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As Rome absorbed Greek culture, it identified its own deities with the Greek pantheon and adopted much of Greek myth, while keeping distinctly Roman cults and rituals.
Source: Standard surveys of Roman religion; cf. Ovid, 'Metamorphoses' and 'Fasti.'
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