Greek and Roman Mythologies

However, the literature indicates that there are lots of similarities and parallelism between these two mythologies because of the modern-day aspects of the Roman and Greek cultures. In such perspective, it is the rationale of this paper to provide a deep-rooted analysis on the similarities and differences of the Greek and Roman mythologies. The origin of the Greek mythology is different as compared to the root of the Roman religion. Homer chronicled the Greek mythology in the epic Iliad while the Roman mythology was recorded in the tome Aeneid. In the context of age, Greek mythology predates the Roman mythology by approximately 7,000 to 1, 000 years (Julita 3). Furthermore, many of the roman deities are named after planets or stars, unlike the Greek gods.

For instance, Venus, Mars, Apollo, Ceres, Minerva, Pluto, Mercury, Vesta, Neptune, Jupiter, and Vulcan are the primary gods of the Roman mythology (Daly and Rengel 131). Contrary, the Olympian gods in the Greek mythology includes Ares, Hades, Hera, Zeus, Hestia, Hermes, and Athena (Daly and Rengel 44). Therefore, the naming style in the Roman mythology is distinct as compared to the naming style in the Greek mythology. Afterlife is another realm where the two mythologies exhibit facades of parallelism. Furthermore, the small and fraud conflicts of the gods interfere with human lives in both mythologies. For instance, Prometheus helps in the creation of human and brings them the fire that Jupiter/ Zeus opt to keep for the god (Hansen and Hansen 70). Since the story is exactly alike in the two religions, it is evident that the Romans and Greeks considered their gods as exaggerated humans with matching but augmented faults.