ROMAN MYTHOLOGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Roman mythology mean? 

• ROMAN MYTHOLOGY (noun)
  The noun ROMAN MYTHOLOGY has 1 sense:

1. the mythology of the ancient Romans

  Familiarity information: ROMAN MYTHOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMAN MYTHOLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The mythology of the ancient Romans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Roman mythology" is a kind of...):

classical mythology (the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks)

Domain member category:

Tellus ((Roman mythology) goddess of the earth; protector of marriage and fertility; identified with Greek Gaea)

Vesta ((Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia)

Victoria ((Roman mythology) goddess of victory; counterpart of Greek Nike)

Faunus ((Roman mythology) ancient rural deity; later considered a counterpart of Greek Pan)

Neptune ((Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon)

Dis; Dis Pater; Orcus; Pluto ((Roman mythology) god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Hades)

Luna ((Roman mythology) the goddess of the Moon; counterpart of Greek Selene)

Aurora ((Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos)

Janus ((Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head)

Fortuna ((Roman mythology) the goddess of fortune and good luck; counterpart of Greek Tyche)

Jove; Jupiter ((Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus)

vestal virgin ((Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple)

Ops ((Roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of Saturn; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor)

Silvanus; Sylvanus ((Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart)

bacchant ((classical mythology) a priest or votary of Bacchus)

bacchante ((classical mythology) a priestess or votary of Bacchus)

Juno ((Roman mythology) queen of the Olympian gods who protected marriage; wife and sister of Jupiter; counterpart of Greek Hera)

Mercury ((Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes)

Vulcan ((Roman mythology) god of fire and metal working; counterpart of Greek Hephaestus)

Sol ((Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios)

Amor; Cupid ((Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros)

Ceres ((Roman mythology) goddess of agriculture; counterpart of Greek Demeter)

Saturn ((Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus)

Dido ((Roman mythology) a princess of Tyre who was the founder and queen of Carthage; Virgil tells of her suicide when she was abandoned by Aeneas)

Minerva ((Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena)

Diana ((Roman mythology) virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; counterpart of Greek Artemis)

Remus ((Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus)

Romulus ((Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome)

Rea Silvia; Rhea Silvia ((Roman mythology) a vestal virgin who became the mother by Mars of the twins Romulus and Remus)

Mars ((Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares)

Mors ((Roman mythology) Roman god of death; counterpart of Thanatos)

Epona ((possibly Roman mythology) Celtic goddess of horses and mules and asses)

 Context examples 

The rules of the International Astronomical Union require that the moons of Neptune are named after Greek and Roman mythology of the undersea world.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)