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8.2 Roman Gods Do Now: Review 8.1 (so map/venn diagram out) HW Preview: Gods & Planets Worksheet & Myth Jupiter Pantomime Notes: Roman Polytheism (on Venn Diagram) Roman Gods & Planets Religion in Rome • Culture is heavily influenced by Cultural Diffusion • Many of the Roman ideas came directly from Greece, including their Gods • But Rome didn’t completely drop their existing religious rituals, they just blended the new with the old – i.e. if one of their gods was similar to a Greek god, they blended them ROMAN RELIGIOUS PRATICES • Wanted to please the gods because they believed the gods could control their daily lives • • • • • Built temples and shrines offering food and sacrifices Leave offerings for favors (i.e. here’s a biscut cause I broke my leg) Holidays to honor gods Emperors sometimes honored as gods Welcomed other religions as long as they didn’t encourage disloyalty to the emperor • Reminds me of… Could have come from… Why was Rome so Easily Persuaded by other religious beliefs? • Romans focused less on using myths to explain phenomena (the reason the Greeks had so many gods to begin with), but were more concerned with rituals to obtain power. Gods of Rome and Greece Responsibility Greece Rome Ares Mars God of Travel Hermes Mercury God of Beauty Aphrodite Venus King of Gods Zeus Jupiter God of Time Kronos Saturn God of Heaven Uranus Caelus *not worshipped Poseidon Neptune Hades Pluto God of War God of Sea God of Underworld Why the Names? • Mercury • revolves quickly • Venus • brightest most beautiful planet • Mars • red as the blood from war Why the Names? • Jupiter • largest planet “King of Planets” • Neptune • blue color named after god of Sea • Pluto • so far away it gets little sunlight Solar System