. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . Implements ofWriting 190 STEPPING STOKTES TO LITERATURK and learned that their gods were quite like those adoredby themselves, they gradually came to call their oWn godsby the Greek names, and to teU all the beautiful storiesabout them that the Greeks told of theirs. Thus theyoften caUed their own Jupiter by the Greet name Zeus,and Juno by the name of Hera. - Virgil is the Latin poet who has best shown that theRoman and the Greek gods are the same. But the Romanshad a few gods which were peculiarly their own; such anone was ^esta, t
. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . Implements ofWriting 190 STEPPING STOKTES TO LITERATURK and learned that their gods were quite like those adoredby themselves, they gradually came to call their oWn godsby the Greek names, and to teU all the beautiful storiesabout them that the Greeks told of theirs. Thus theyoften caUed their own Jupiter by the Greet name Zeus,and Juno by the name of Hera. - Virgil is the Latin poet who has best shown that theRoman and the Greek gods are the same. But the Romanshad a few gods which were peculiarly their own; such anone was ^esta, the goddess of the home. They had verygreat respect for Vesta, and made much of her priestesses were known as Vestal Virgins, and were veryhighly esteemed. The love and worshTpof this goddess showone of the noblest virtues of the Romans, for they were greatlovers of home; this is one reason why they were better andnobler than the Greeks, although they were less RUINS OF THE COLISEUM, AT ROME. THE BEGINNING OF ROME. 191 XXXVI. THE BEGINNING OF ROME.
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