A myth is a story told about gods or heroes. Mythology is a term applied
to the collected myths of a nation or people, sometimes to the
scientific study of myths. The first to busy itself in a large sense
with mythology was the Greeks, whose myths had the most luxuriant and
fanciful development. When the Romans received the arts and sciences
from the Greeks, they adopted also their gods and their entire religious
system. Thus it was that the Greek and Roman mythologies were to a great
extent the same.