I am supposed to do a presentation on Roman mythology. I know Romans have same gods but they changed them a bit (like their names and personality). But are Greek myths same for Roman myths? Like the Edip, Sizif, Narcis, Pandora box, are these all also Roman myths?
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Have in mind that Roman Mythology was created almost 1000 years later but it adopted the ideas of Greek mythology and “paraphrased” those ideas as their own. Both of these mythologies have many similarities but i don't think that Roman Mythology comes up with the same Myths as Greek, take for example The Myth of Sisyphus. The Roman mythology does not have this myth and there are more Greek myths the Roman mythology doesn't have and vice versa.
Mythology is not a stable definition. It is oral tradition and can vary much from place to place, from time to time. So, even if we talk about "Greek Mythology", there is no fixed corpus of texts. As for the Roman mythology, the same applies. Several Greek gods had their names adapted to Latin, like ZEUS for JUPITER. But not only names. Some stories about Jupiter have no equivalent for the Greek Zeus.