Roman Mythology

A Captivating Guide to Roman Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Dryw McArthur

Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's Summary

Introducing: Captivating stories and facts of Roman gods, goddesses, and mythological creatures! 

In this audiobook, you will discover many fascinating aspects of the Roman gods, goddesses, and mythological creatures. Each of the first six chapters begins with a narrative scene which helps bring the legendary and mythical characters to life. 

In chapter one, you will find the seeds of legitimacy that Virgil planted regarding the Trojan connection to Rome. In chapter two, you will learn about the foundation of Rome by the semi-divine, wolf-suckled brothers, Romulus and Remus. This chapter will also explore the myth of Aeneas’s son. 

In chapter three, you will learn about the gods of Roman origin as well as Roman mythological creatures. Chapter four focuses on the Etruscan influence on Roman mythology. The Greek influence on Roman mythology is the topic of chapter five. 

In chapter six, the audiobook will investigate the Celtic influence and see how the gods of the Celts were melded with the Roman pantheon in creative ways. Finally, in chapter seven, you will discover the potential truths behind the Roman gods, goddesses, and creatures. Every myth had a beginning, and in this chapter, we explore some of the possibilities. 

Just some of the questions and topics covered in this audiobook include: 

• The Trojan Connection
• What History and an Analysis of Myth Tell Us
• Founding of Rome
• Purely Roman Gods
• The Creatures of Roman Mythology
• Borrowings from Etruria
• Influence of the Greek Pantheon
• Greek Creatures Adopted by the Romans
• Celtic Potpourri
• Roman Conquests of the Celts
• Truth Behind the Roman Gods

Listen to the audiobook now and learn more about Roman mythology!

©2017 Matt Clayton (P)2017 Matt Clayton

Very enjoyable

It gives great basic knowledge of the Roman gods and, surprisingly, My son enjoyed listening to it. He usually does not like learning or listening so this was a bit of a wonder.

Nice

If you desire to understand all about why we follow our civilization's focus beliefs to Argos, listen to this AUDIObook. A compact version of the appearance that is well edited and fully covers the bases of Roman mythology.

It is an amazing book at any age

Matt writes with a lot of information and gives the stories very entertaining. It has all of the Greek and Roman myths you would look for in a mythology book.so you a rewarded with remarkably marvelous stories. It is an amazing book at any age.

A good review of all major myths

This book gives a fine survey of Roman belief. Each of the above stories and multiple of the minors is included here. I would have wanted to see more of the myths from other religions, but it is natural that they are not involved, given the point that the work. A useful manual to myths.

I loved this book a lot

An enjoyable book if you like Greek mythology. Matt does every character in both their Greek & Roman titles so you can cross-reference of the different mythology books out there.
Great and perfect book. Almost detailed stories.

Such in depth writing

A wonderful. action-packed, drama-packed, AND informative! what more could you want?
I bought this item for my son. He told it was great and had a lot of knowledge.Such in-depth writing.

For me a good start into Roman Myths

This book is well written and informative. It articulates Greek mythology from its beginnings to their present-day cultural representations in movies and stories. I would recommend this book.This book is full of great mythology stories.

Great tales to share with children

Greek and Roman Mythology really peek my interest, and this book captures them both perfectly. This book is like all of the roman myth books combined, along with stories of the conquests of the heroic gods.

A Roman Synthesis

I love this book. I found Matt's "Mythology" while in high school midway through the last century. I loved it then, and I've always learned it. Very well simplified, and nice illustrations!

Great Stories!

I love learning more about the mythology of the Roman time period. It's fascinated me since I was a little kid. This was well worth the listen. Heard a few new stories I hadn't heard before. Glad I went ahead and checked it out!

An excellent book on Roman Gods,Goddesses

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The book Roman Mythology by Matt’s is an excellent book on Roman culture. It is updated to recent facts and is extremely easy to find information. It not only contains the names of hundreds of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses.

Fantastic

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This is a concise, neatly arranged history of the Roman Empire, describing the founding of Rome, its expansion, and its collapse. It includes information about Roman culture, architecture, technology, religions, its emperors and Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures.

Show the depth of human emotions!!!

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I truly love the book and would've returned it, however, it is the examples of the Roman Gods and Goddesses that are very hard for me to compare to. I would purchase this book again but may be applied rather of fresh.

Amazing book

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The Romans came from a city and went on to dominate their world. Their influence is still with us yet, generally, little is known about them. Covers all aspects of Roman life and history, their Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures and all about.

Children love Greek and Roman myths

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Children love Greek and Roman myths for all their action, magic, and adventure. Not only are they fun, but these myths have played a crucial role in the formation of our culture.

Gods, Goddesses and their myths!!!

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There is a lot of detail in here, Roman Gods, Goddesses, and Mythological Creatures, mythological beasts and the Ancient Greek.I have come away from listening to this, with a comprehensive knowledge and understanding all of these Gods.

Learn more about Roman Mythology

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Learned many things about the life of the Romans during their successful height of power. I found that in many aspects, they I were very similar to us today.Learn more about Greek and Roman Mythology with this comprehensive and fully illustrated book.

Mythological Creatures

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It manages to deliver a lot of information in very little time with the practically decorative language and it's so clearly written that this is great overwhelming. Highly recommended.

Informative book about the history

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An educational book about the history of Roman mythology. The book has extra information on Roman mythology, the gods and goddesses and all of the fabulous individuals. This book should be part of the education system.

A true guide for history lovers.

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I read about this in my school days so when I saw this book I immediately decided to download this. This was an Interesting read the way the mythology was tangled with the history to designate where and why the stories might have happened.