Abstract
Roman deities are not very easy to classify. They were never organized into a pantheon in ancient Rome, so that we cannot say there was a fixed number of them or that they fulfilled particular functions divided between them. Some of them are clearly part of the Roman tradition from the earliest periods of the city; some are later additions, introduced at specific dates with specific ceremonies, which the Romans carefully recorded. Some have very complicated histories, having multiple associations with different areas of life and often different additional names, defining a particular aspect of the deity. Others seems to exist only because of a particular function or particular moment. Some have special priests, or in the single case of Vesta, priestesses; many, however, do not, but fall within the ambit of the major college of the pontifices.
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