Roman+Mytholgy

**Jupiter**
//Title//: King of the Gods //Greek Name//: Zeus //Day of the Week//: Thursday //Solar System//: Jupiter //Wonder of the World//: Statue of Olympia //Relations//: Son of Saturn. Grandson of Uranus. Brother of Neptune and Pluto. Has many Children. ~ His messenger is that of an Eagle. ~His weapon is a Thunderbolt. ~ Though the other Gods are afraid of him, he is a little afraid of his wife Juno.

**Neptune**
//Title//: God of the Sea //Greek Name//: Poseidon //Solar System//: Planet Neptune //Relations//: Son of Saturn. Grandson of Uranus. Brother of Jupiter and Pluto. Has many children. ~ He carried a trident with three prongs. ~ He rode a dolphin or a horse (which were the white foam at the tops of the waves, or known as Seahorses). ~Was the God of Earthquakes. ~ Was also the God of horses and Horseracing.

**Pluto**
//Title//: God of Death //Greek Name//: Hades //Solar System//: Dwarf Planet Pluto //Relations//: Son of Saturn. Brother of Jupiter and Neptune. Husband of Proserpine. ~Romans were afraid to say his real name lest they draw his attention to them and die. ~Was sometimes confused with the Greek God Plutus, the God of Wealth. ~ The Moon of Dwarf Planet is named Charon, named after the Underworld Ferryman.

**Apollo**
//Title//: God of the Sun //Greek Name//: Apollo is a Greek name. //Day of the Week//: Sunday //Solar System//: Sun //Relations//: Son of Jupiter. Brother of Diana ~Being the Sun God, he drove a chariot of fiery horses across the sky to give light to the world. ~Apollo had a son called Phaethon, who was human. ~ Apollo was the God of music, and played the lyre.

**Mars**
//Title//: God of War //Greek Name//: Ares Solar System: Planet Mars //Month//: March //Day of the Week//: Tuesday //Relations//: Son of Jupiter. Father of Romulu and Remus. ~ Romans, who were great Soldiers, thoughts Mars was extremely important. ~ Mars' sons, Romulu and Remus, were the founders of Rome. ~ When Romulu and Remus were babies they were left to die, only to be suckled by a mother wolf. ~ Romulus gave his name to Rome. ~ The campus Martius was used to train soldiers and hold horse races. March was called after Mars because it was the month soldiers began fighting again after winter.

**Cupid**
//Title//: God of Love //Greek Name//: Eros //Relations//: Son of Venus ~ Was a mischievous God who carried a bow. Anyone hit by one of his arrows fell madly in love. ~ After scratching himself with an arrow, Cupid fell in love with a human woman he'd been looking after, Psyche.

//Title//: Messenger of the gods //Greek Name//: Hermes //Relations//: Son of Jupiter. Son of Maia. //Day of the Week//: Wednesday //Solar System//: Planet Mercury ~ Also the God of Travelers. ~ Had a winged hat and sandals so he could fly. ~ Was also the God of Thieves. ~ Also the God of Science and Business. ~ After stealing some of Apollo's cows, he was caught due to the fact he had made a lyre strung with cow gut. Apollo agreed Mercury could keep the cows if he could have the lyre.
 * Mercury**

**Vulcan**
//Title//: The Smith God //Greek Name//: Hephaestus //Relations//: Son of Jupiter ~ Made Jupiter's Thunderbolts ~ His smithy was in the volcano Etna in Sicily. ~ After making Jupiter angry, Vulcan was thrown from the Heaven's where he broke both legs; making him lame. ~ He made women of Gold to help work in his smithy.

**Bacchus**
//Title//: God of Wine //Greek Name//: Dionysus //Relations//: Son of Jupiter ~ Also the God of Theater, since the first plays in Greece were held in his honor. ~ Accompanied by Maenads, or wild dancing women.

**Saturn**
//Title//: God of Time //Greek Name//: Cronos //Day of the Week//: Saturday //Solar System//: Planet Saturn //Relations//: Son of Uranus and Gaia. Father of Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune. ~ His weapon was a scythe ~ He was called "Old Father Time." ~ Saturn ruled the Gods before his son, Jupiter. ~ His sons represented the three things he, as Time, could not kill: air, water, and death.

**Janus**
Title: The God of Doors Month: January ~ He kept the gates of Heaven, so he became the God of Gates and Doors. ~ His temple in Rome had it's doors wide open during Wars and closed during peace. ~ He had two faces, one looking forward and one looking back.

**Juno**
//Title//: Queen of the Gods //Greek// Name: Hera //Month//: June //Relations//: The wife of Jupiter. The mother of Mars and Vulcan. ~She was the wife of Jupiter, and the Goddess of women and childbirth. ~Her bird was that of a peacock. ~The first day of each month (the Kalends) belonged to Juno.

**Venus**
//Title//: Goddess of Love //Greek Name//: Aphrodite //Day of the Week//: Friday //Relations//: Daughter of Jupiter. Mother of Cupid. //Solar System//: Planet Venus ~ Was born in the sea, and came to shore at Cyprus floating on a scallop shell.

**Diana**
//Title//: Goddess of the Moon //Greek Name//: Artemis //Day of the Week//: Monday //Relations//: Sister of Apollo. Daughter of Leto. //Wonder of the World//: Temple at Ephesus ~Her twin brother, Apollo, was the God of the Sun while she was Goddess of the Moon. ~ Carried a bow and arrows since she was Goddess of the Hunt. ~ Helped women in childbirth because her mother gave birth to her and Apollo so easily.

**Minerva**
//Title//: Goddess of Wisdom //Greek Name//: Athene //Relations//: Daughter of Jupiter //Symbol//: An Owl //City//: Athen's ~ Was also Goddess of Arts and Crafts

**Ceres**
//Title//: Earth Goddess //Greek Name//: Demeter //Relations//: Mother of Proserpine ~ Also the Goddess of Corn

**Proserpine**
//Title//: Goddess of the Underworld //Greek Name//: Persephone //Relations//: Daughter of Ceres. Wife of Pluto. ~After eating six seeds of an underworld pomegranate, she is forced to stay in the underworld for six months.

**Vesta**
//Title//: Goddess of Home //Greek Name//: Hestia //Relations//: Sister of Jupiter. ~ Goddess of the Hearth, the center of the Roman Home. ~ A quiet, well-behaved Goddess who never joined in fights of the other gods. ~ A protector of the sacred flame, which was supposed to have been brought from Troy to Rome by the Hero Aeneus. ~In Roman homes, everyday during a meal, a small cake was thrown into the fire for Vesta.

**Maia**
//Title//: Goddess of Growth //Month//: May //Relations//: Mother of Mercury ~ On the first day of may people would go out Maying. This could have been a show of honor to Maia, or the Flower Goddess. ~ We still have the first Monday in May as a Holiday. ~ Flora, the Flower Goddess, are similar Goddesses.

__**Uranus and Gaia**__
//Titles//: Uranus was the God of the Sky, Gaia the Goddess of the Earth. //Greek Names//: Uranus and Gaia are Greek names. //Relations//: Parents of Jupiter. //Solar System//: The Planet Uranus. ~ Uranus was a shadow figure right at the start of time. He came before Saturn who came before Jupiter. ~ They were not worshiped by the Romans. ~ After a violent argument, Uranus and Gaia split up, forever separating the Earth and the Sky.