CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Minerva, Latinus, Aeneid
27 Apr 2016
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In the year of 2nd century bc following the sack of corinth, the greeks became assimilated into roman society: the romans took the greek gods and renamed them. 12 renamed gods: dionyssous became bachus, apollo stays the same, aphrodite becomes venus, eres becomes mars, hera becomes juno, hermes becomes mercury, poseidon becomes neptune, zeus becomes jupiter, artemis becomes diana, athena becomes menerva, demeter becomes ceres. The romans incorporated their religious practices into greek myth. The romans created the myth of the origin of rome using the aeneid and the livy. They believe their city was founded april 21, 750 bc. The story of the origin of rome started after the trojan war. Aeneas flees the city but he is not a coward: he wants to stay and fight and die with his fellow trojans but he is forced to leave by his mother venus (aphrodite)
