This had a political component. Under Alexander, "the monarch and his consort were worshipped as deities in their lifetime, rather than being posthumously heroised as demigods" as occurred in other contemporaneous societies, like Egypt (Jones & Pennick 1997, p
"It happens that many, even of the very early Greek myths, were quite foreign to the Romans. To this class, belong, for instance, the myths that describe the conflict between Uranos and his sons: Kronos devouring his children to escape, as he thought, being dethroned by them, and Zeus placing his father, Kronos, in durance in Tartaros" (Murray 1998, p
However, as the gods began to emerge as part of Roman religious tradition, the most notable of them came from the Greek tradition. "It seems that the first great god of the Romans was Mars" who was derived from the Greek god, Aries (Parrinder 1983, p
A closer look at fate by examining both the characteristic three fates and the story of Oedipus reveals that Greeks did not have an assumption of free will, like that which is so prevalent in the 21st century. Called the Moirai, a name that means parts, the three fates assigned each person his or her "share in the scheme of things" (Atsma, 2008, para