CL 28 - Classical Mythology
Roman Religion and Mythology

Jupiter/Jove (Zeus)
Juno (Hera)
Ceres (Demeter)
Minerva (Athene)
Diana (Artemis)
Lucina
Mercury (Hermes)
Merx
Vulcan (Hephaistos)
Mars (Ares)
Neptune (Poseidon)
Venus (Aphrodite)
Vesta, the virgin protector of the hearth (Hestia)
Tellus Mater, mother earth
Janus, god of the gate
Lares and Penates
Orcus, the Underworld (Dis pater and Proserpina)
Libera
Vestal Virgins

pietas
numen - numina
gens, familia 

Romulus and Remus
Rhea Silvia
Numitor
Hersilia
Rape of the Sabine Women
Quirinus
Aeneas
Creusa, his wife, dead at Troy
Anchises, Aeneas's father
Ascanius, Aeneas's Trojan son
Turnus, the military leader of the Latins
Pallas, Aeneas's lover, killed by Turnus
Dido, the woman he loves
Lavinia, Aeneas's Latin wife
Iulus, Aeneas's Latin son
King Latinus
Allecto, a Fury from the Underworld
 

Rome; Latium - Latins; Etruria - Etruscans
Phoenicians
Campania. Palatine, Aventine, Capitoline
Tiber River
Lavinium
Alba Longa

Amor - Roma
augery 

Virgil, Roman poet (70-19 B.C.) - Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid
Ovid, Roman poet (43 B.C.- A.D. 17) - Metamorphoses, Heroides
Horace, Roman poet (65-8 B.C.)
Livy

 

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