More Therapeutic Letter Writing

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Dear People Who Are In Charge Of Disseminating Information On Mythology,

Greek and Roman mythology may have many similarities and parallels and stuff but they are not mirror images with a name change! Go do your research! It's not like there aren't plenty of original sources available.

Love,

Fuego



Dear Disney,

Hercules was Roman. Herakles was Greek. WTF is wrong with you?

Cordially,

Fuego

Comments

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Greek and Roman mythology are actually damn near the same with mere name changes, in the parts the Romans took anyhow.

For one, Greek mythology wasn't all taken to Roman mythology, only the ones Romans liked or came across. Greek mythology came out of people's organic experiences, Roman was mostly appropriated.

I imagine there were also some gods in Rome that were local, but who knows what happened to their worship.

[fuego.livejournal.com]

they are very close...but they're not identical.

i know more about Greek than Roman, but I recently read some interesting bits on Roman mythology...like the Romans had specific gods for *parts* of their doors...there's a god of door hinges, and a god of door frames