Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

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In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state religion – called the di consentes – paralleled the gods of Greek mythology. Although they kept Latin names and images ...

This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the Shell in Pompeii, depicts the goddess being born from a seashell. The Greek Olympian gods were a ...