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Comparing Gods and Goddesses

 

    Religion plays an interesting role in civilization.  It is not something that a person can hold or touch, but is something that people feel and believe.  Many societies believe in a variety of Gods and Goddesses and worship them in a variety of ways.  As time passes religions fade away and are replaced with newer versions of Gods to worship.  The Illiad and the Odyssey that were composed around 700 b.c. were long Greek poems, or myths that detail the various Gods and Goddesses that the Greeks believed in and worshiped (MYTHOLOGY, 2008). 

 

    Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses are very similar.  When Greece was conquered by the Romans in 146 b.c. they adopted the Greek religion, but renamed the major Greek Gods and Goddesses and gave them Roman names.  Many of myths surrounding Gods and Goddesses in Greek and Roman mythology were used to explain happenings such as thunder, bad crop harvests, or the changing of the seasons.  Each God or Goddess had its own specialty, and people believed it was important to keep that God or Goddess happy, or bad things could happen (MYTHOLOGY, 2008).