Jupiter's wife, twin sister and queen of Roman gods and goddesses, Juno, is the most powerful equivalent to the Greek goddess ...

Others were lifted from Greek stories — Gods like Apollo or Hercules. The Romans took these foreign deities and gave them new names and Roman qualities to suit their needs.

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

So they got around it by trying to have the best of both worlds by pairing off their Roman gods with their British equivalents, and erecting joint shrines. One of the most famous in Britain is to ...