| @bazmerelda: I really like the format of the quiz and the originality of the quiz. On the other hand, however, I can't deny that there are a number of issues with the information. You cannot really be blamed, of course, because you have the source linked. Your source website itself has a number of errors, and looks like a website created for a school project. In addition, it is really rather incorrect to call the Roman gods rip-offs of the Greeks. I know that the common conception is that the Romans took the gods from the Greeks, and this certainly does happen (such as Apollo and Dionysus for example) but it's much more complicated. Some of the gods developed at the same time in Italy and Greece, sometimes it had to do with the Etruscans, sometimes the Romans would notice a Greek god and think "Hey, he's a lot like our own god Whosyface." It's a bit more complicated than just rip-off. Here are the errors as I see them 1) Hades/ Pluto: certainly not the god of death. Hades had little to do with the actual death of the people, but merely ruled over them in the underworld. The Greeks had a god, Thanatos, (Roman: Mors) who took the role of god of death. In all honesty, Hermes would have been considered a god of death before Hades, because of his role as psychopomp (guide of souls.) 2: Kronos/ Saturn: A huge case of syncretism, or mixing of three gods. First, there is the Titan Kronos, (by the way, don't pay attention to 12bball, titans are gods) then the god of time Chronos, and then the Roman agriculture god Saturn. All three of them got smashed together to the point that people think of them as the same god. Saturn was certainly developing in Italy before the Italians had really heard of Kronos. They both had similar attributes, though, so when the Greeks talked about Kronos, the Romans were like, "must be Saturn." 3: Fauna/ Maia: This is a really weird combination, mainly because the Greeks and the Romans each had a goddess with the name Maia. The Greek goddess is the mother of Hermes, and her n |
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