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June 12 , 475 A.C.
London, England
How I Met the Roman Gods
The Dirty Truth about Roman Gods and Myths
By Jessica Hauser
Last night I met some very interesting
people at a dinner dance. I ran into some
Roman gods and we had interesting
conversations. I realized that all the Roman
gods were adopted from Greek gods. The
entire Roman culture is based around these
gods and myths.
The god who put together the party
was Jupiter, king of all gods and men. It was
hard to miss him. I knew I had to be polite to
him because he has the power to punish
people or gods if they did they did the wrong
thing. Jupiter introduced me to his beautiful
wife and queen, Juno. She seemed very proud
of herself because she symbolized the image
desired by a Roman woman.
At my table was the god Mars, a son of
Jupiter and Juno. He said he was originally the
god of agriculture but he later becomes the
god of war. He was pretty selfish because the
soldiers of the Roman army prayed to him
before, during , and after a battle. I thought
Mars wasn’t so terrible until later that night
when I met a very interesting goddess.
The goddess’s name was Rhea Silvia.
She is also known as llia. Rhea was forced to
be a vestal virgin so that she could have no
rightful heirs to become king. She was raped
by Mars and gave birth to Remus and
Romulus. Rhea hid her pregnancy so that she
would not be killed. After the twins were
born, she was discovered and her punishment
was death, by Amulius, her uncle.
Late in the evening, I bumped into
Romulus. He told me the story of him and his
twin, Remus. So after their mom’s uncle
Amulius killed their mom Rhea, he put baby
Romulus and Remus in the Tiber River. When
they grew older, they killed Amulius for
revenge and took the throne. The twins’ dad,
Mars, had told them that they should build
the city of Rome. Both twins wanted to be the
only king. They fought very violently and very
often too. One day, Romulus threw a rock at
Remus and killed him. This made him the new
king. Rome was named after Romulus
because he was strong and mighty.
That was one interesting dinner
dance. Ding! Ding! Ding! Whoa, I guess I must
have dozed off in class. At least I was
dreaming and learning about something
related to the topic.
This carving was created in the Roman Empire.
Depicted in this artwork is Rhea Silvia holding
her twins, Romulus and Remus.
http://www.crystalinks.com/romereligion.html
http://dante.udallas.edu/hutchison/Seven_kings/found
ing_of_rome/rhea_silvia.htm
Greek and Roman Mythology; by Malcolm Couch
Ventura Class reading