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Chapter 3 of 10
Roman mythology
Adoption and founding.
Equivalents
Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars and Venus map onto Greek figures, though Roman religion also had older household and state cults of its own.
- Ritual correctness mattered more than belief in Roman practice.
- Emperors were incorporated into state religion after death.
Founding myths
Romulus and Remus, and Virgil's Aeneid tracing Rome to Troy, gave the empire a prestigious past and a moral justification for rule.