When you become an expert on Roman mythology you need to know when it began, when it became big and 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 from which Zeus and the Olympians are derived. Also like Perseus who had killed the hydra. That religion soon became big in Rome. In which they had to take from the Greek because they thought the Greek gods were great but needed new names that were clean in their eyes. Philip Matyszak a person who described myth simply as “the worldview of the ancients”. Myths often appeared as simple stories filled with villains and heroes. What people would see themselves as, that's why people believed they did. Even in Roman mythology the difference between history and myths was almost indistinguishable. The names he was changed to were Zeus was changed to 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 renamed the hero of the Romans and what we know today as Hercules. Aphrodite also became Venus, but the Romans also believe that their gods were associated with the Greek gods, which they explain in some of their writings. What they found in Rome is mostly just a pseudo-mythology” (which over time clothed their nationalistic or family legends). in a mythical dress borrowed from the Greek).” Even the Roman religion did not have a creed; as long as a Roman performed the right religious action he was free to think he pleased about God. Having no beliefs, he usually deprecated emotion and found it out of place in acts of worship. Despite the ancient character not far from the surface it is difficult to reconstruct the history and evolution of the Roman religion. The literary sources are the antiquarians such as Varro and Verrius Flocco, Roman scholars of the 1st century BC and their contemporary poets (under the late republic and Augustus), who wrote 700 and 800 years after the beginning of