Questions on the Reading Roman Gods by Rose Williams. Answer these questions on a computer or iPad, include an image for each god, and then upload your answers and images to Google docs (share with me). Google images is a good place to start looking for images. Include with your images a caption that tells where the image is or comes from.
1. How does William characterize the first Roman Gods, before Greek influence? Sober and hardworking.
2. What values did the early Roman Gods embody? truthfulness, thrift, morality, and justice.
3. Name two Early Roman Gods. Janus, as well as the personal gods and most of the
simple Numina (Divine Powers) such as Terminus, god of boundaries, and Sylvanus, god of the woods
4. How do you translate the Roman prayer Do ut des and what does it tell you about Roman attitudes toward the gods?
5. Write three sentences describing the god “Janus.”
6. Write three sentences describing the Roman goddess Vesta.
7. Write two sentences describing the Roman goddess Diana
8. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Mars.
9. Write two sentences describing the Roman goddess Venus.
10. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Saturnus
11. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Quirinus.
12. Write two sentences describing the Roman household god Lar.
12 Write two sentences describing the Roman household gods Penates.
13. Write two sentences describing the Roman concept of divine Genius.
14. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Jupiter.
15. Write two sentences describing the Roman goddess Juno.
16. Write two sentences describing the Roman goddess Minerva.
17. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Mercurius.
18. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Neptune.
19. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Vulcanus.
20. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Pluto.
21. Write two sentences describing the Roman and Greek god Apollo.
22. Write two sentences describing the Roman god Bacchus.
23. Write two sentences describing the Roman goddess Ceres.
24. Write two sentences describing the Roman Di Consentes.