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This page groups deities by their divine parent, the genealogical link myths use to connect one god to another. The Greek poet Hesiod's Theogony is the clearest ancient example of this kind of divine family tree, its very title glossed by Wikipedia as meaning "the genealogy or birth of the gods". Browsing by parentage lets a visitor trace how a mythology builds its gods into generations rather than treating each one in isolation.

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What Defines This Grouping
The gods of Roman public and household religion, a tradition defined more by correct performance of rite and by divine function than by narrative. Rome's major gods were progressively identified with Greek ones and much of the myth attached to them is Greek; the archaic priesthoods, the festival calendar and figures such as Janus and Vesta are where the native religion is clearest. 2
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Era of Attestation
Attested from the sixth century BCE in inscriptions and in the archaic festival calendar; the public cult ended with the imperial legislation of 391 to 392 CE. 2
Veneration Today
The public cult was ended by law in late antiquity; no continuous worship survives. 2
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The gods of Rome

This group holds the deities of ancient Roman religion. Roman worship began with native Italic and household gods and a strong sense of divine functions and rites, and over time identified its major gods with those of Greece, adopting much of Greek myth in the process.

The browser will find the Capitoline triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, along with Mars, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and the rest of the Olympian equivalents, as well as distinctively Roman figures such as Janus, the two-faced god of doorways and beginnings, and Vesta of the hearth. The entries note the Greek counterpart of each syncretised god.

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Ceres

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1 entry

Juno

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1 entry

Jupiter

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3 entries

Leto

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1 entry

Maia

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1 entry

Zeus

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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
  • Category: Deities
2. The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th edition
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2012s.v. religion, RomanView the Source
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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