Talk:Roman mythology/Archive 1

message: I've nominated Africus for COTW. I did this because I felt that the Roman god who is directly responsible for the name of one of our present-time continents deserves more than two lines for his article. If you would like to support, please go to its COTW page and write your name down on the support list. -- SoothingR(pour) 15:53, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Africus for COTW

message: Why do two of the Roman deity use "(god)" or "(goddess)" randomly, while most of them, and all the Greek deity articles, use "(mythology)"? The latter seems preferable, since it avoids needless specificity in disambiguation and can apply accurately to a wider number of articles without possible accusations of POV for stating whether or not a specific being qualifies as a "god". What's up with this:
I'd fix them myself, but unlike most of the deity pages where a move from (god)/(goddess) to (mythology) was implemented, for some bizarre reason this one already has "Jupiter (mythology)" and "Pluto (mythology)" as redirects to those two pages. Ick. -Silence 04:06, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are they not tagged "_(religion)"? It is only from an "outside" POV that they are myths. It is certainly not true that Papa Roman sat his kids down and said "It is time you learned our mythology, those things we believe in order to understand our world". I could also support using no tags at all, (as in the case, for example, of Amaterasu), and glossing the untagged entry on disambiguation pages, as, for example, is the practice here with Jesus. In short, adding (mythology) to Jupiter et al. but not to Jesus or Amaterasu seems rather POV to me. Whogue 07:32, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mythology is not meant as a POV slight.  Remember that mythology does not necessarily mean that something is considered false, but it is not exactly the same as religion, either.  In short, mythology is more about the stories while religion is about beliefs and rituals.  Check the pages on wikipedia pages mythology and religion for more info. AliaGemma 05:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Parenthetical Problems

message: I changed the list of major gods. It is now a gallery, the reason for this is that in my opinion, it is better with pictures. However, I am short of some pictures. 
The previous list looked like this:
God/Goddess	God/Goddess of
Apollo     	God of the sun, dancing, festivities, archery and music
Bacchus    	God of wine
Ceres      	Goddess of the earth
Cupid      	God of love
Diana      	Goddess of the moon and hunting
Fortuna    	Goddess of luck
Janus      	God of doors
Juno       	Queen of the gods
Jupiter    	King of the gods
Maia       	Goddess of growth
Mars       	God of war (originally agriculture)
Mercury    	Messenger of the gods
Minerva    	Goddess of wisdom
Neptune    	God of the sea
Pluto      	King of the underworld
Proserpine 	Queen of the underworld
Quirinus   	God of defense & the state
Saturn     	God of agriculture
Uranus     	God of the heavens
Venus      	Goddess of love
Vesta      	Goddess of hearth
Vulcan     	God of smithing
If you prefer the old one, above, to the current please tell me and I'd be happy to change it back. Sotakeit 20:29, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Major Gods

message: The beginning of this article sounds sort of like the content on this website
http://www.crystalinks.com/romemythology.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.29.117.134 (talk) 23:36, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it does, but it's probably copied from Wikipedia and not the other way around (the end of the text says: References: Wikipedia). Pax:Vobiscum 02:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: The last two paragraphs of the "Early mythology about Roman history" section contain numerous spelling errors (such as "Odisius", "whorlpool", etc.), some wording that needs to be rearranged for clarity, as well as the abbreviation "w/" instead of "with" several times. I tried to correct them and to clean it up some, but cannot find how to edit that section anywhere on the page, either by editing the entire page or by editing that section.
32.97.110.142 (talk) 20:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early mythology about Roman history 

message: It seems to me that a good deal of this article ("Native Roman and Italic gods", "Foreign gods", "Major Roman deities") properly belongs in Religion in ancient Rome. Whogue 08:46, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mythology and Religion

message: It lacks citation and modern references, so I'll tag accordingly. Style and content are reminiscent of a public lecture by some charming, scholarly old buffer with elbow-patches who means to talk about mythology but loses his way. Really needs some work, and Beard, North and Price's "Religions of Rome" (1998) Cambridge, might be a start. Yes, "Religions", because the authors elucidate the issues this article attempts to resolve. Haploidavey (talk) 12:42, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Upper-level? You mean you can't expect the average college senior to know them? Wow, if that's true, how sad. (The trouble with 'panoply' here is that it doesn't mean what the user seems to have intended.) To Haploidavey's point, "The Romans had no sequential narratives about their gods comparable to the Titanomachy or the seduction of Zeus by Hera until their poets began to adopt Greek models in the later part of the Roman Republic" … hard to say where to begin to rewrite that into something meaningful.  Cynwolfe (talk) 02:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, a splendid beginning. Let's just link to Greek mythology and be done. Or better, let's rewrite from scratch. Haploidavey (talk) 15:31, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs dedicated editing

message: I was at the library the other day, had T.P. Wiseman's The Myths of Rome in my hand, thought, eh, I won't be looking at Roman mythology anytime soon, put it back, and somehow ended up here today. Anyway, I had made some notes from Bremmer and Horsfall's rather idiosyncratic book, which taken alone seem so disproportionate (no Horatius at the bridge!) that I threw in some other Greatest Hits. I figure if a student ends up here (and they appear to frequently, judging from the juvenile vandalism the article gets), something is better than nothing for now. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed it is. Structure at last, (and "convoluted revisionist genealogy" bodes very well for the future. Lovely phrase).  Haploidavey (talk) 14:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temporary measures 

message: Someone changed the page to "write some damn mythology".  I changed it back to the previous version.
You don't need to make a comment about it ;) ---As said on this site, The wii version will Have wii compatibility (talk) 19:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Roman mythology
The ancient Romans had a rich mythology and while much of it was decrived from their neighbors and predecessors,the greeks,it is still defined the rich history of the roman people as they eventually grew into an empire 122.54.113.218 (talk) 03:22, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: — Assignment last updated by Nursing202 (talk) 15:50, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology