ROMAN GODS Flashcards
Who are the Roman Gods
Jupiter (Zeus),
Juno (Hera),
Neptune (Poseidon),
Vesta (Hestia),
Mars (Ares),
Minerva (Athena),
Venus (Aphrodite), Mercury(Hermes)
, Diana (Artemis),
Vulcan or Mulciber (Hephaestus), and
Ceres (Demeter).
two gods who kept their name in Roman Gods
Apollo
Hades
They were a people of deep religious feeling, but they had little imagination. They wanted useful gods. An important Power
Romans
which means the Powers or the Wills—the Will-
Powers,
The Numina
Every Roman family had a Lar, who was the spirit of an ancestor
Lares
gods of the hearth and guardians of the storehouse. They were the
Penates
who are the Numina
Terminus (guardians of boundaries)
Priapus (cause of fertility)
Pales (strengthener of cattle)
Sylvanus (helper of plowmen and woodcutter)
Saturn (protector of sowers and seeds )
Ops (harvest helper)(wife of Saturn)
the god of good beginnings
Janus
Saturn’s grandson, a Roman Pan, A rustic god and a prophet too
Faunus
Quirinus
Founder of Rome
spirit of the good deeds in Hades
The Manes
spirits of the wicked dead and were greatly
feared.
the Lemures or Larvae
as useful and practical goddesses who cared for springs and
wells and cured disease and foretold the future
The Camenae later on they were the muses
the goddess of childbirth,
Lucina
as Powers Protecting Orchards and Gardens.
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