The Romans borrowed and adapted ideas from the Greeks as well as the Etruscans. Greek architecture was one important influence on the Romans. As you remember, the Greeks built marble temples as homes for their gods. Temples like the Parthenon had stately columns that added to their beauty.

3 Answers. The biggest difference that I’m aware of is that the Classical Greek religion was much more the religion of myths that we all know, while the Classical Roman religion had fewer personifications and its gods were much more like numinous forces than like people.

Greek art was held in high regard by the ever-expanding Romans who set about conquering the Mediterranean and coming home with art and treasure from across the land. Roman artists copied many marble and bronze statues in order to meet popular demand, usually working in marble.

The Etruscans taught the Romans both engineering and building skills. They also decisively influenced the classical Roman architectural style. They also developed the economy of the city, for instance by draining the marshes adjacent to Rome.

Greek and Roman statues were often painted, but assumptions about race and aesthetics have suppressed this truth. Now scholars are making a color correction. For centuries, archeologists and museum curators had been scrubbing away these traces of color before presenting statues and architectural reliefs to the public.29

God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. Both Apollo and Artemis use a bow and arrow. Apollo is depicted as young, beardless, handsome and athletic.

Clotho

Aphrodite

The names of the Fates and the Destinies are both listed as Klotho, Lakhesis, and Atropos. After the creation of Pandora, the Fates inflicted all manner of evil and hardship on the men of the earth.

Hephaestus

Freya, also seen spelled Freyja or Freja, is the Norse goddess of fire, love, beauty, and fertility.

Hestia, in Greek religion, goddess of the hearth, daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and one of the 12 Olympian deities. Hestia was closely connected with Zeus, god of the family in its external relation of hospitality and its internal unity.

Interesting Facts About the Greek Goddess Hestia Hestia never married or had kids. Zeus granted her the right to remain an eternal virgin. In many ways she was the opposite of the goddess Aphrodite. Both Apollo and Poseidon wanted to marry Hestia, but she refused.

Hestia gave up her Olympian throne to make way for Dionysus, Zeus’ son. She then tended mostly to the Olympian hearth in the center of the room. And she was killed in 200 B.C.

The fear was that if she failed in her duties, harm would come to the members of the household. To the Ancient Greeks, Hestia represented everything that was domestic. This included the hearth, home, architecture associated with homes, and anything else related to internal domestic issues.

Hestia’s Friends and Enemies Hestia had no personal enemies, but did despise the Titans, Cyclops, and Typhon along with her fellow gods and goddesses.

In this light, Artemis’ virginity is also related to her power and independence. Rather than a form of asexuality, it is an attribute that signals Artemis as her own master, with power equal to that of male gods.

Hestia was the Power of the Hearth. Meaning, she was power of the central fire of a family’s living place. She was the cooking fire that everyone in the family got the food from that kept them alive. She was the power of the light and the warm during long winter nights.

4) Children of Hestia have the ability to communicate with donkeys, and by extension, mules and hinnies as they are hybrids of donkeys. They can somewhat understand horses and other equines, as well. 5) Children of Hestia, much like children of Hephaestus, have pyrokinesis as well as authority and control over fire.

Her strengths: She was constant, calm, gentle, and supportive of the family and home. Her weaknesses: Cool emotionally, a little too calm, but could defend herself when necessary.