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Ancient Greek mythology and Roman mythology Greek mythology and Roman mythology are two major mythologies of Europe. These two myths constitute a series of colorful Ancient European culture, and also they had significant impact on the ancient and modern European countries as well as the lives of people around the world. However, many people are confused about these two myth systems. The main reason is because Roman mythology integrated Greek mythology into their myths, it can be said that the Roman mythology is the inheritance of Greek mythology. But if you compare the world constitution, Gods and God, The Legend of Heroes, and influence on the European culture of them, you will find the difference between the two. World constitution in the mythology In Greek mythologies, the world exists in an oval-shaped universe. It is divided into five parts. The five parts include the earth on which human live, Mysterious and unknown sea, the dark underworld at end of the sea, the heaven on the Mount Olympus in which the gods inhabit, the seabed buried a Giant. Heaven, the sea and Underworld are supervised by Olympus, Poseidon and Hades separately. The management of land belongs to the three main Gods of the universe. The Giants will always be buried under the earth. 　The old theogony of Greek mythology recorded the origin of the world. The oldest god of the initial universe is the Ka Esi (Chaos), Then Ka Esi give birth to Gaea (the earth) and Eros (Love) and Tartarus (the abyss or hell). Then Erevus (dark) and Nike Te (night) occurred at the bottom of the earth, the combination of them was the bright (Light) and daylight (day). Gaea gives birth to Ouranos (the sky) and Oceanus (ocean). Gaia with her ??son Ouranos gave birth to the twelve Titans. They are the ancestors of Gods. From the above, we can see the direction of the world formation in Greek mythology: the beginning of the world is chaos and darkness, light and love finally break the darkness. In Greek mythology the o