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To edit the "Topics in Roman Mythology" table, see Template:Roman myth. That table can also be added to related pages if you want by inserting {{Roman myth}} Bacchiad 22:51, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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, partially directed on town's personality.

No one said gods can't also be allegories. Besides, Augustus was a full-out god after his death, not just a sort of demi-god. Bacchiad 07:05, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Africus for COTW 2 List of Major Gods 3 Parenthetical Problems 4 Vandalism 5 Mythology and Religion 6 when it died

[edit] Africus for COTW

I've nominated Africus for COTW. I did this because I felt that the Roman god who is directly responsible for the name of one of our present-time continents deserves more than two lines for his article. If you would like to support, please go to its COTW page and write your name down on the support list. -- SoothingR^(pour) 15:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Major Gods

I changed the listof major gods. It is now a gallery, the reason for this is that in my opinion it is better with pictures. However, I am short of some pictures. The previous list looked like this:

God/Goddess	God/Goddess of
Apollo	God of the sun, dancing, festivities, archery and music
Bacchus	God of wine
Ceres	Goddess of the earth
Cupid	God of love
Diana	Goddess of the moon and hunting
Fortuna	Goddess of luck
Janus	God of doors
Juno	Queen of the gods
Jupiter	King of the gods
Maia	Goddess of growth
Mars	God of war (originally agriculture)
Mercury	Messenger of the gods
Minerva	Goddess of wisdom
Neptune	God of the sea
Pluto	King of the underworld
Proserpine	Queen of the underworld
Quirinus	God of defense & the state
Saturn	God of agriculture
Uranus	God of the heavens
Venus	Goddess of love
Vesta	Goddess of hearth
Vulcan	God of smithing

If you prefer the old one, above, to thge current please tell me and I'd be happy to change it back. Sotakeit 20:29, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Parenthetical Problems

Why do two of the Roman deity use "(god)" or "(goddess)" randomly, while most of them, and all the Greek deity articles, use "(mythology)"? The latter seems preferable, since it avoids needless specificity in disambiguation and can apply accurately to a wider number of articles without possible accusations of POV for stating whether or not a specific being qualifies as a "god". What's up with this:

• Jupiter (god)
• Pluto (god)

I'd fix them myself, but unlike most of the deity pages where a move from (god)/(goddess) to (mythology) was implemented, for some bizarre reason this one already has "Jupiter (mythology)" and "Pluto (mythology)" as redirects to those two pages. Ick. -Silence 04:06, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Why are they not tagged "_(religion)"? It is only from an "outside" POV that they are myths. It is certainly not true that Papa Roman sat his kids down and said "It is time you learned our mythology, those things we believe in order to understand our world". I could also support using no tags at all, (as in the case, for example, of Amaterasu), and glossing the untagged entry on disambiguation pages, as, for example, is the practice here with Jesus. In short, adding (mythology) to Jupiter et al. but not to Jesus or Amaterasu seems rather POV to me. Whogue 07:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Someone changed the page to "write some damn mythology". I changed it back to the previous version.

[edit] Mythology and Religion

It seems to me that a good deal of this article ("Native Roman and Italic gods", "Foreign gods", "Major Roman deities") properly belongs in Religion in ancient Rome. Whogue 08:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] when it died

I really wanted to know when the religion completely died out because there must have been some small out of the way places that kept their beliefs.