The Roman's had their own religion, based upon several gods. They believed that gods controlled their lives and gave them power. Every event in their life was thought to happen because of the gods. When it was lightning outside the gods were angry. When it was warm and sunny the gods were in great moods. Each Roman god had it's own power and controlled different parts of Roman's life.



The family tree has been scattered all around. Your job is to take on the the role of a god detective and unscramble the tree.
Begin by first numbering your page 1-15. Use the resources found on the internet to answer all the questions. Some could be tricky so good concentration always helps the best of god detectives. Answer the questions below filling in the answers that correlate with the question number and your already numbered paper.

This is jupiter he will help pull the gods together.


Roman gods alphabetical order
Roman myths
Encyclopedia on Gods
Myths as Religion
Roman Gods and Goddesses



  • Along your way write down any gods you found interesting, it may help for later.
  • Keep your work very organized to be able to keep everything organized
  • If you find other interests on the web sites feel free to explore
  • If there is time at the end of your tasks go and compare roman gods to greek gods.


    1. Who was the feast of Saturnalia held for?
    2. The god of the underworld, black sheep were sacrificed to him.
    3. God of the Sea.
    4. The supreme god, made his will known through oracles.
    5. Queen of the gods married her brother, month of June is named after her.
    6. Mother of Hercules.
    7. Early Roman goddess of youth, a coin was offered to her when boys wore men togas, daughter of Jupiter.
    8. God of war, thought of as god of earth, brought fertility to earth, the month of March was named after this god.
    9. God of fire and craftsmanship, destructive fires, living fish were sacrificed during the night of drought in his honor.
    10. Step mom drove him insane, this god was forced to go to the mortal world and perform twelve labors, his wife accidentally killed him.
    11. Mother of earth was supreme goddess, gave birth to the first gods and mortals.
    12. Known as the starry sky in the evening, came up out of the earth shown as his wife Gaea.
    13. Sea nymph convinced by a dolphin to marry Neptune.
    14. Jupiter's messenger god, god of games, business, and story telling.
    15. Sons of Mars, founders of Rome, became roman war heroes as mortal men.

      Now that you have completed all the questions you are ready to build your own Roman Family Tree. On a blank piece of paper start in the top middle, and from side to side place these numbers in order.
      11 -------------12
      Under those numbers put 1
      Under 1 spread out numbers 13-------3------------2 6-------4---------5
      on the next line directly under 6 put the number10
      go down two spaces from there and directly under 5 spread out7--------14----------8-------------9
      directly under 8 put the number15
      Place the name that matches the numbers in the spots. Your done. Now you have your basic Roman family tree.

      To show your true god detective skills, stop and think to yourself about a problem you might have now or had in the past. What did you do to solve this dillema? Think about some of the gods you have learned about. What god would you have called upon to help you in your dillema? Write a short story about the event. Include in the story what your problem is. What god helped you and the adventure you and the god had together. You can use more then one god in your story. Be creative and thoughtful. When finished share your story with your teacher or parent.



      Neptune appreciates all your efforts and hopes you pick him for your story!!

      Thanks to you the roman god world has been peacefully put back together. You have given the gods a new sense of importance. From the information gathered and the story written the gods are now on to new missions. Do you think the next time a problem comes up you will think about what a Roman god would do? Can you ponder to yourself why back in roman descent they would look to gods to explain their lives? The next time you try to explain a incident to your parents or friends think what the driving force could have been if the gods were not fictional characters.(Jupiter, Neptune, or Mars??????)

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