What is Roman mythology?

It's more complicated (and queer) than you might think

Most people think of “classical mythology” as Greek. The stories of Achilles, Heracles, Oedipus and the Olympian gods seem to belong to a Greek tradition and are usually situated in Greece or Greek colonies. On this view the Romans were simply skillful imitators (or even thieves), who took so much from their enemies that they even shaped their own panth…