"Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans."
Romans have many myths about how the world came into being.
The primordial deities: The initial gods and goddesses who existed before the creation of the universe.
Chaos: The void from which the universe emerged and which existed before anything else.
Creation myths: The various Roman stories of how the world and everything in it was created.
Titans: The powerful deities who were believed to have ruled the world before the Olympians.
Jupiter (Jove): The king of the gods whose role in creation stories varies from one myth to another.
Humans in creation myths: The various ways in which humans were believed to have come into existence in Roman mythology.
Terra (Gea): The goddess of the earth who played a significant role in many creation myths.
The role of other gods and goddesses: The roles played by other deities in creating the universe and humanity in Roman mythology.
The universe: The creation of the heavens, constellations, planets, and other celestial bodies in Roman mythology.
The Golden Age: The period of peace and harmony believed to have existed in the earliest days of creation.
Chaos Theory: Chaos theory holds that everything in the universe was initially created from chaos, a state of disorder and confusion. It states that the universe was created when chaos was divided into different elements.
Creation by Magic: This myth holds that the world and all of its inhabitants were created by magic or a divine act by a supernatural force.
Cosmic or Universally Based Creation: This creation myth involves the creation of the entire cosmos, including the earth, stars, planets, and all living things, through some mythical process.
Dual or Dyad Creation: Dual creation holds that the world was created by two opposing forces that represent different aspects of nature: Such as male/female, light/dark, and good/evil.
Emergence Creation: Emergence creation holds that the world and all things in it emerged gradually from a single entity over time.
Divine or God-Based Creation: This myth holds that the world was created by one or more gods or goddesses who fashioned the earth from chaos or other raw material.
Evolutionary Creation: Evolutionary creation proposes that life on earth evolved over time through natural selection and other evolutionary processes, rather than being created in a single act.
Ex Nihilo Creation: Ex nihilo creation is the concept that the universe and all of its contents were created from nothing in a single moment.
World Egg Creation: World Egg creation states that the world was created by a cosmic egg that hatched, releasing the elements that formed the world.
Earth-Diver Creation: This myth describes the creation of the world through the intervention of a supernatural being who dived into the water and brought up mud to create the earth.
Form-Based Creation: Form-based creation posits that the universe was created based on a set of established patterns or forms.
Universe Within a Universe Creation: This myth suggests that the world and everything in it were created within a larger, divine universe or multiverse.
"Roman mythology may also refer to the modern study of these representations."
"Roman mythology draws from the mythology of the Italic peoples and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European mythology."
"Roman mythology also draws directly on Greek mythology."
"Potentially as early as Rome's protohistory, but primarily during the Hellenistic period of Greek influence and through the Roman conquest of Greece."
"The Romans identified their own gods with those of the ancient Greeks... and reinterpreted myths about Greek deities under the names of their Roman counterparts."
"Greek and Roman mythologies are therefore often classified together in the modern era as Greco-Roman mythology."
"Latin literature was widely known in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance."
"The interpretations of Greek myths by the Romans often had a greater influence on narrative and pictorial representations of 'Greco-Roman mythology' than Greek sources."
"The versions of Greek myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses, written during the reign of Augustus, came to be regarded as canonical."
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"Roman mythology may... refer to the subject matter as represented in the literature and art of other cultures in any period."
"One of a wide variety of genres of Roman folklore."
"Roman authors... imitated Greek literary models."
"The Romans identified their own gods with those of the ancient Greeks... and reinterpreted myths about Greek deities under the names of their Roman counterparts."
"The Romans identified their own gods with those of the ancient Greeks—who were closely historically related in some cases, such as Zeus and Jupiter."
"Potentially as early as Rome's protohistory, but primarily during the Hellenistic period of Greek influence and through the Roman conquest of Greece."
"Greek and Roman mythologies are therefore often classified together in the modern era as Greco-Roman mythology."
"Latin literature was widely known in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance."
"The versions of Greek myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses, written during the reign of Augustus, came to be regarded as canonical."