Knowra Roman mythology Roman mythology Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories about Roman gods, heroes, and origins. It developed alongside Roman religious practice and absorbed many figures and narratives from Greek mythology.
Roman religion : The public and household practices through which ancient Romans honored gods, ancestors, and sacred obligations. Roman myths often explain the gods whose worship structured civic and domestic life.
Aeneid : Virgil’s Latin epic poem recounting Aeneas’s journey from Troy and the legendary roots of Rome. It gives Rome a Trojan ancestry and connects its destiny to the gods.
Indigitamenta : Lists of divine names and functions used by Roman priests to guide ritual invocation. They preserve the specialized divine powers that formed part of early Roman religious tradition.
Virgil : A Roman poet whose epic Aeneid linked Rome’s origins and imperial future to Aeneas and the gods. His epic made mythic ancestry a central story of Roman identity.
Roman imperial cult : The Roman practice of honoring emperors and members of the imperial family with religious rites and honors. Divine ancestry and mythic precedent helped connect imperial power with sacred authority.
Roman gods : The deities worshipped in ancient Rome, including Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. Their powers and relationships supply the central cast of Roman myth.
Romulus and Remus : Twin brothers in Roman legend, exposed as infants and associated with the founding of Rome. Their story makes the city’s origin a tale of divine ancestry, violence, and foundation.
Etruscan mythology : The religious beliefs and divine traditions of the Etruscans, Rome’s influential neighbors in central Italy. Etruscan religious forms helped shape Roman divination and understandings of divine signs.
Livy : A Roman historian whose work Ab Urbe Condita narrated Rome’s legendary beginnings and early history. His account preserves influential versions of Rome’s foundation legends.
Roman foundation myth : The set of legends explaining Rome’s origins through figures such as Aeneas, Romulus, and Remus. It gathers the origin stories that gave Roman identity a shared legendary past.
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