The Roman Religion History

Filed in archive Roman history on June 18, 2010

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We follow Roman religion history we find the development of a small city-state into a great empire comprising many different races, languages, and civilizations makes the problem of Roman religion a complicated one. Among Latin's, Sabines, Etruscan s religion took an Italian development, redolent of their racial and local characteristics, of which, as compared with the Greeks, lack of creative power was one, hence we miss in Roman divine world that wealth of legend which makes the Greek so picturesque, while from the same cause the Roman divinities betray fewer of failings by which those of Greece often sink to the human level. It was only with the Rome's political growth as an Italian power that a mythology began to be created, and state deities like Jupiter, the head of the divine world, came Mars the defender of the city, father of Romulus an of the Roman people and Quirinus the deified Romulus. A second Rome defending trinity was composed of Jupiter, with his sister and consort Juno and his daughter Minerva.