RomanMythology.com publishes articles on Roman mythology, religion, and history. This page describes how that content is produced, what sources it draws on, and how errors are handled.

Sources

Articles on this site draw primarily from classical Latin and Greek sources — Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Virgil’s Aeneid, Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, Plutarch’s Lives and Moralia, Macrobius’s Saturnalia, Dionysius of Halicarnassus’s Roman Antiquities, and the surviving fragments of Varro’s Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum. Secondary sources include modern scholarly works on Roman religion, mythology, and history.

Public-domain translations are used where relevant. All modern commentary is paraphrased rather than quoted at length.

How Articles Are Written

Each article begins from primary sources and is cross-checked against current scholarship before publication. Where sources disagree — and on questions of Roman religion they frequently do — the article notes the disagreement rather than flattening it into a single tidy answer.

Accuracy & Corrections

We aim for accuracy, but the study of Roman religion is contested and evolving. If you spot an error — a misattributed source, a date, a mistranslation — we want to know. Corrections are made promptly and, where substantive, noted on the page.

Attribution

Images are either public domain, appropriately licensed, or original. Where a specific scholarly argument is drawn from a named work, that work is credited in the article.