Language Classes, 12/21

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Written on the blackboard:

LAST CLASS -- Please hand in your final projects

There is a basket on Dream's desk to collect the papers; next to it sits another basket, full of red-and-green wrapped candy canes and Christmas chocolates. Dream is not visible, but a large raven is perched on his desk, watching over the students. When a paper is turned in, he inspects it with shiny eyes and seems to caw his approval.

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Re: Classics, 12/21

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Both the Greeks and the Romans were pegans who worshipped many gods and goddesses for different things. And though the Greeks and Romans were very different peoples they had very similar religions. In actuality the Romans took the Greek gods and goddesses and made them their own, only with different names. The Romans did have some gods that they took from other tribes and people they defeated, on the most part it was mostly associated with the Greek gods.

The thing the Romans did to change their gods from the Greek gods was to change their name. They mainly named their gods after planets. For example the Greeks had Zeus, the god of lighting and the master of all the gods. The Romans changed his name to Jupiter. If you take the main Greek god names (Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysius, Demeter, Hermes, Poseidon, Hestia and Hephaestus) and compared them to their Roman equivalent (Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Venus, Mars, Apollo, Diana, Bacchus, Ceres, Mercury, Neptune, Vesta and Vulcan) you will notice that only Apollo is the god that keeps his name. Even minor Greek gods like Nike had her named changed by the Romans (to Victoria).

I suppose the Romans changed their names to make the religion all their own. Or at least make it seem like it was all their own, as most of the mythology was the same as the Greeks too.