tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post2091663559414282573..comments2024-03-27T09:04:12.454-07:00Comments on Baring the Aegis: Hellenic vs. Roman mythologyElani Temperancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05611003885755154591noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-62381234046050962062012-12-02T02:11:45.837-08:002012-12-02T02:11:45.837-08:00I do add Roman mythology to the blog on occasion. ...I do add Roman mythology to the blog on occasion. Many myths from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' have passed the review. Arachne, for example, as well as Médousa, and many of his myths made it into the 'Remembering Transgender Day of Remembrance' post. The hard part is finding out which Roman myths were written by a Roman about the Theoi, and which were edited Hellenic myths or Roman myths. Because I don't have the proper knowledge about the Roman Gods and the Roman empire, I can't make this distinction very well. I do look at the Roman myths, though, but mostly because they're listed a 'Greek and Roman myths', and I have no choice but weed out the Roman influence. <br /><br />Thank you for your comment :)Elani Temperancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05611003885755154591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382184804747180588.post-18932628204601159022012-12-01T21:20:30.895-08:002012-12-01T21:20:30.895-08:00I would wonder whether a Roman, if interested, cou...I would wonder whether a Roman, if interested, could potentially write about the Theoi just as well as any of the rest of us non-Greeks. They would bring to the tales their own personal and cultural biases, of course, as we all do, but it seems to me as though the occasional one may have been thinking more of the Theoi than of their Roman equivalents when writing. Those individual stories would be valid to incorporate, I would think. Not to be irreverent, but if it walks and talks like Dionysius, it might just be Dionysius - even if labelled Bacchus.<br />Not that I'm some great authority on any of this. ): But the Romans swiped three-quarters of their culture wholesale from Greece, and - though they certainly crafted their own belief system out of that - it's hard for me to imagine that the occasional glint of the old Theoi wouldn't have shone through the iron of Rome.Memory Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12912400934007349604noreply@blogger.com