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| The Roman Pantheon The Roman Gods |
| Name | Origin where known | Picture | Characteristics |
| Annona | Mythical personification of the annual food supply | ||
| Apollo | Greek | Good of healing and prophecy | |
| Asclepius | Greek | God of healing | |
| Attis | Phrygian | Beloved of Cybele | |
| Bacchus | Greek as Dionysos | | God of wine |
| Bellona | Goddess of War | ||
| Bona Dea | The 'Good Goddess'; unnamed spirit whose rites were attended only by women | ||
| Cardea | Household goddess of door hinges | ||
| Castor & Pollux (Dioscuri) | Greek | Two legendary heroes | |
| Ceres | Greek as Demeter | | Goddess of agriculture |
| Consus | God of the granary | ||
| Cybele | Phrygian | See 'Magna Mater' | |
| Diana | Greek as Artemis | | Goddess of light, also unity of peoples |
| Dis | Greek as Pluto | God of the underworld | |
| Faunus | Greek as Pan | God of fertility | |
| Flora | Goddess of fertility and flowers | ||
| Forculus | Household god of doors | ||
| Fortuna (also Fors, Fors Fortuna) | | Goddess of good luck | |
| Genius | | Male spirit of the Roman family | |
| Glaucus | A sea God | ||
| Hercules | Greek as Herakles | God of victory and commercial enterprise | |
| Hermes | See Mercury | ||
| Isis | Egyptian | | Goddess of the earth |
| Janus | God of doorways | ||
| Juno | Greek as Hera | | Goddess of women |
| Jupiter (English Jove) | Greek as Zeus | | God of the heavens |
| Juturna | Goddess of fountains | ||
| Lar (plural Lares) | | a Spirit of the household | |
| Larvae (or Lemures) | mischievous spirits of the dead | ||
| Liber | God of fertility and vine growing | ||
| Libitina | Goddess of the dead | ||
| Limentinus | Household god of the threshold | ||
| Magna Mater | Phrygian as Cybele | The 'Great Mother', goddess of nature | |
| Magnes | Spirits of the dead | ||
| Mars | | God of war | |
| Mercury | Greek as Hermes | | God of merchants |
| Minerva | Greek as Athena | | Goddess of crafts and industry |
| Mithras | Persian as Mithra | | God of the sun |
| Neptune | Greek as Poseidon | God of the sea | |
| Nundina | Presiding Goddess at the purification and naming of children | ||
| Ops | God of of the wealth of the harvest | ||
| Osiris | Egyptian | Consort of Isis | |
| Pales | God/Goddess of shepherd | ||
| Penates | Household spirits of the store cupboard | ||
| Picumnus & Pilumnus | Agricultural gods associated with childbirth | ||
| Pomona | Goddess of fruit | ||
| Portunus | God of harbours | ||
| Priapus | God of fertility in gardens and flocks | ||
| Quirinus | State god under whose name Romulus was worshipped | ||
| Robigus | God of mildew | ||
| Roma | | Goddess of Rome | |
| Sabazius | Phrygian | God of vegetation | |
| Salus | God of health | ||
| Serapis | Egyptian | God of the sky | |
| Saturn | Greek as Chronos | God of sowing | |
| Silvanus | | God of woods and fields | |
| Sol | Helios | | God of the sun |
| Tellus | Goddess of earth | ||
| Terminus | God of property boundaries | ||
| Venus | Greek as Aphrodite | | Goddess of love |
| Vertumnus (also Vortumnus) | God of orchards | ||
| Vesta | Greek as Hestia | | Goddess of the hearth |
| Volturnus | | God of the Tiber river | |
| Vulcan | Greek as Hephaistos | | God of fire |
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