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Title: Roman Mythology


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Roman Mythology
  • By Emily Ubienski

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Romulus and Remus
  • 2 boys put in the Tiber River and saved by a wolf
  • Taken by a farmer raised them
  • Found they were kings went to find new land.
  • Romulus killed Remus land called Rome.

3
Picture of Romulus and Remus Shrine
4
The Aeneid
  • 12 books
  • First 6 are like the Greek book the Odessey
  • Last 6 are like the Greek book the Iliad
  • Both epic adventures

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Some pictures to describe the Aeneid
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Roman Gods and Goddesses
  • Their were 12 important gods
  • Jupiter,Juno,Neptune,Vesta,Mars,
    Minerva,Venus,Mercury,Apollo,and Pluto
  • One of importance was Vesta protector of Rome

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Pictures of Roman Gods and Goddesses
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Vesta the protector
  • Like a hearth her shrine is in the middle of
    Rome
  • The vestal Virgins
  • picked at ages 6-9

9
Mythology
  • People always wanted to know why so thats how
    mythology was created
  • Had to answer 5 questions

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The 5 Questios
  • 1.Where did the world come from?
  • 2. What are the Gods and where do they come from?
  • 3.How do humans come to be?
  • 4.Where is the evil in the world
  • 5.What happens to people when they die.

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Creative and Exclamortory
  • Creative myths were mostly used for how the gods
    were created
  • Exclamortory was how things
  • Happened
  • Like the seasons

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Horses in mythology
  • Poseidon created the horse in Greek mythology

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Differences
  • Romans did copy from mostly the Greeks
  • But also Egypt, Asia Minor ,and the Middle east

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Greek to Roman
  • The gods just changed names
  • Zues-Jupiter
  • Hera-Juno
  • Poseidon-Neptune
  • Hesta-Vesta
  • Ares-Mars
  • Athena-Minerva
  • Aphrodite-Venus
  • Hermes-Mercury
  • Artemis-Diana
  • Hephaetus-Vulcan

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Other Religon
  • Lars each family had own gods
  • Had alters for them
  • Made cults for the gods
  • This idea spread throughout the Mediterranean

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  • The End
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