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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They also trace their myth of origin byck to the heros Aeneas, son of Aphrodite (Venus) and a Trojan prince. So it's somehow inherent that the Greek and Roman gods are identical.

[โ€“] PugJesus 3 points 3 months ago

To be fair, that was a very late innovation. The entire era of the Republic had no such myth; it comes from a wholesale invention in an epic poem commissioned by Emperor Augustus. By the time that bit of mythology came about, Roman religion was already very established in its own right.