This page lists some of the major Greek and Roman Gods in a table, showing the equivalences where the Greeks and Romans used different names to refer fundamentally to the same God.
For a more detailed view of Roman or Greek mythology, you may care to visit the Encyclopaedia Mythica.
GREEK | ROMAN | Notes |
Zeus | Jupiter | Chief of the gods; God of the sky |
Hera | Juno | Chief of the goddesses; goddess of marriage and childbirth |
Apollo | Apollo | God of prophecy, youth, music; appeared as the sun |
Helios | God of the sun | |
Mithras | God of the sun and regeneration | |
Ares | Mars | God of war |
Bellona | Goddess of war | |
Aphrodite | Venus | Goddess of love and beauty |
Eros | Cupid | God of love |
Artemis | Diana | Goddess of fertility and hunting |
Hermes | Mercury | Messenger of the gods |
Athene | Minerva | Goddess of wisdom |
Demeter | Ceres | Goddess of the harvest |
Dionysus | Bacchus | God of wine and ecstacy |
Hephaestus | Vulcan | God of fire |
Poseidon | Neptune | God of the sea |
Hades | Pluto | God of the underworld |
Persephone | Proserpine | Goddess of the underworld |
Hestia | Vesta | Goddess of the hearth |
Nike | Victoria | Goddess of victory |
Selene | Luna | Goddess of the moon |
Arethusa | Egreria | Goddess of springs and fountains |
Thanatos | Orcus | God of death |
Libitina | Goddess of funeral rites | |
Cronus | God of the universe; father of Zeus | |
Rhea | Mother goddess, wife of Cronus | |
Nemesis | God of destiny | |
Fortuna | Goddess of chance and fate | |
Adonis | God of vegetation and rebirth | |
Saturn | God of fertility and agriculture | |
Liber Pater | God of agricultural and human fertility | |
Silvanus | God of trees and forests | |
Pomona | Goddess of fruit trees | |
Fauna | Goddess of fertility | |
Flora | Goddess of fruitfulness and flowers | |
Pan | God of male sexuality and of herds | |
Janus | God of entrances, travel, the dawn | |
Eos | Goddess of the dawn | |
Lares | Gods of the house | |
Penates | Gods of food and drink | |
Aeolus | God of the winds | |
Boreus | God of the north wind | |
Asclepius | God of healing | |
Cybele | Goddess of the earth | |
Gaia | Goddess of the earth | |
Ganymede | God of rain | |
Iris | Goddess of the rainbow | |
Hypnos | God of sleep | |
Morpheus | God of dreams | |
Fides | God of honesty | |
Hebe | Goddess of youth | |
Epona | Goddess of horses | |
Nereus | God of the sea | |
Oceanus | God of the river Oceanus | |
Atlas | A Titan who bears up the earth |
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