Romans, an ancient people who lived in what are now modern-day Turkey, Northern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, are renowned for their wisdom.
The Romans had a highly sophisticated written language that was widely used in the ancient world. It is one of the oldest languages still preserved from antiquity. The Romans developed a writing system from the Phoenician alphabet, which was itself based on the Proto-Canaanite script developed from Egyptian hieroglyphics
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This script was later adapted to write Greek as well as Latin. In time, the ancient alphabet would eventually be replaced by other writing systems such as Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets.
Roman mythology is the body of stories regarding the actions of deities and mythical heroes that were handed down through oral traditions before being recorded in written form.
These stories were a way of preserving a historical record of their culture for future generations. Ancient Roman mythology has been studied and reinterpreted throughout the centuries, from the perspective of different religious and political viewpoints.