[Sca-cooks] It's over ... and what I would do differently

[Sandra Kisner]

>The Romans had rather different deities, but because they wanted to be 
>associated with the Greeks who they looked up to, they created a false 
>parallelism between the Roman deities and the Greek. Because of the Romans 
>and the subsequent Renaissance Europeans who followed the Romans' lead, we 
>moderns often have the Roman and Greek deities rather blenderized in our minds.
>
>In the Roman version, the daughter is Proserpine. But in reality the Roman 
>Ceres and the Greek Demeter are quite different as were the Roman Pluto 
>and the Greek Hades, just as the Roman Venus and the Greek Aphrodite have 
>*very* different characters, as do the Roman Mars and the Greek Ares.

Are there any books you'd recommend that discuss these differences?

Sandra