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* Tempoh lebih awal: bersifat [[kultus]] dan berfungsi dengan cara yang amat berbeza dengan kaunterpart [[Yunani]].
* Tempoh lebih lewat: bersifat [[kesusasteraan]] dan terdiri daripada pinjaman bulat-bulat daripada [[mitologi Yunani]]
 
 
==Sifat mitos Rom awal==
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 borrow from Greek models in the later part of the Roman Republic.
 
What the Romans did have, however, were:
*a highly developed system of rituals, priestly colleges, and "clusters" of related gods.
*a rich set of historical myths about the foundation and rise of their city involving human actors, with occasional divine interventions.
 
===Mitologi awal mengenai dewa-dewi===
The Roman model involved a very different way of defining and thinking about the gods than we are familiar with from Greece. For example, if one were to ask a Greek about [[Demeter]], he might reply with the well-known story of her grief at the rape of [[Persephone]] by [[Hades]].
 
An archaic Roman, by contrast, would tell you that [[Ceres]] had an official priest called a flamen, who was junior to the [[wiktionary:flamen|flamens]] of [[Jupiter (god)|Jupiter]], [[Mars (god)|Mars]], and [[Quirinus]], but senior to the flamens of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]] and [[Pomona]]. He might tell you that she was grouped in a triad with two other agricultural gods, [[Liber]] and [[Libera (goddess)|Libera]]. And he might even be able to rattle off all of the minor gods with specialized functions who attended her: Sarritor (weeding), Messor (harvesting), Convector (carting), Conditor (storing), Insitor (sowing), and dozens more.
 
Thus the archaic Roman "mythology", at least concerning the gods, was made up not of narratives, but rather of interlocking and complex interrelations between and among gods and humans.
 
The original [[religion]] of the early Romans was modified by the addition of numerous and conflicting beliefs in later times, and by the assimilation of a vast amount of [[Greek mythology]]. We know what little we do about early Roman religion not through contemporary accounts, but from later writers who sought to salvage old traditions from the desuetude into which they were falling, such as the [[1st century BC]] scholar [[Marcus Terentius Varro]]. Other classical writers, such as the poet [[Ovid]] in his ''[[Fasti]]'' (Calendar), were strongly influenced by [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic]] models, and in their works they frequently employed Greek beliefs to fill gaps in the Roman tradition.
 
===Mitologi awal mengenai sejarah Rom===
In contrast to the dearth of narrative material about the gods, the Romans had a rich panoply of legends about the foundation and early growth of their own city. In addition to these largely home-grown traditions, material from Greek heroic legend was grafted onto this native stock at an early date, rendering [[Aeneas]], for example, an ancestor of [[Romulus and Remus]].
 
The [[Aeneid]] and the first few books of [[Livy]] are the best extant sources for this human mythology.