When you become an expert in Roman mythology, you need to know when it started, when it gained momentum, how it ended. You also need to know a little about Greek mythology. Because when people mention mythology, the first thing that comes to mind is Greek mythology, to which Zeus and the gods of Olympus come. This is also the case of Perseus who killed the hydra. Soon, religion became important in Rome. In which they had to switch from Greek because they thought the Greek gods were great but needed new names that would be pretty in their eyes. Philip Matyszak, a person who described the myth simply as "the worldview of the ancients." Myths often appeared as simple stories filled with villains and heroes. What people would consider themselves is why people believed they were also in Roman mythology, the difference between history and myths was almost indistinguishable. The names that were changed were Zeus became Jupiter while Hades and Poseidon became Pluto and Neptune. Ares, the god of war, became Mars and Hermes, the messenger god, became Mercury and Hercules became the hero of the Romans and what we know today as Hercules. Aphrodite also became Venus, but the Romans also believed that their gods were associated with the Greek gods, which they explain in some of their writings. What they found in Rome was mostly just "pseudo mythology" (which then clothed their own nationalist or family legends in mythical dress borrowed from Greek). Roman religion also had no creed; provided a Roman performed the appropriate religious action, he was free to think that he loved God Having no beliefs, he generally considered emotion to be of secondary importance in acts of worship. The ancient appearance not far from the surface makes it difficult to reconstruct the history and evolution of Roman religion Antiquarian literary sources such as the 1st century BC Roman scholars Varro and Verrius Floccus and the poet who were. also their contemporaries (under the end of the republic and under Augustus) who had written 700 and 800 years after the beginning of