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Tradition collection 2,123 records

Greek and Roman

The Olympians and their Roman equivalents, the mystery cults, and the poets whose accounts disagree.

  • Extent Aegean, Italy and the Roman provinces, roughly 1600 BCE to 400 CE.
  • Holds 1,086 gods · 578 figures · 311 places · 92 texts and stories
Meet the gods

Before you count

Local cults are thin: Wikidata records the Panhellenic gods far better than the deity of a single Arcadian valley.

What else it is missing

Gods · 1,086

The gods, and the company they keep

The most widely linked across Wikipedia, this collection’s own first. A picture of a god is a work of art, never a likeness.

All 1,086 gods

More of its best-linked gods

In company

Pantheons, read from the members’ own records — never from a fixed roster.

Twelve Olympians 13 members on record Explore the pantheon

10 more pantheons

Figures · 578

Who to meet first

The figures its own texts, stories and traditions name — the most widely linked first, this collection’s own before those it shares.

All 578 figures

More of its best-linked figures

Places · 311

Holy places and sites

Temples, tombs, holy cities and sites recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. A place is not a count of believers.

All 311 places

311 places 311 with a point on the map 91 with a date 42 archaeological sites

See them on the atlas

The oldest on record

The earliest recorded starts among its best-known places, by 1000 CE, in date order. Each date is the place’s own — a city’s founding, a building’s — not the start of this tradition there.

  1. 3000 BCE Troy Archaeological site
  2. c. 2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza
  3. 14th century BCE Delphic Oracle
  4. 10th century BCE Ephesus Archaeological site
  5. c. 1000 BCE Priene Archaeological site
  6. the 900s BCE Sparta Archaeological site
  7. 8th century BCE Pergamon Archaeological site
  8. 8th century BCE Roman Forum Archaeological site

Where they gather

Cities and sites with two or more of its places recorded in them — counted from each place’s own location.

Texts and stories · 92

Stories and texts

What was told, and what was written — dated when it was written.

All 81 stories All 12 texts

Festivals and practices · 37

Festivals, holy days and practices

Holy days with the day their record gives, then rites and practices. A festival recurs, so it has no date on the historical clock.

All 37 practices

Holy days and festivals · 5, each with the day its record gives

1 more with a recorded day — the full list.

Rites and practices · 20, with no day on record

14 more — the full list.

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 37.

Traditions · 15

Many paths, shared histories

The traditions, schools and movements this collection holds — each with its own page.

All 15 traditions

Offices and houses · 3

Offices and houses

Recorded in this collection, the most widely linked first. An office is a line of holders, not a family. A ruling house’s affiliation is the family’s, not its subjects’ practice.

All 2 offices 1 house

Argued, cited and signed

Explained connections that reach into it: a claim, its evidence, its limits.

All explained connections

What this collection holds

Counted, not scored. Each count opens its list.

Every collection

A record can be more than one kind — a monastery is a place and an institution — so these counts add up to more than its 2,123 records. The sections above count the same way, and draw each record once, under the kind its own page is filed under.

Statements
12,969
With references
2,858
Undated
2,000
Accounts
0
Reviewed here
0
What it is missing, and how it was assembled

What this collection is missing

Written by an editor, not computed. A count of records cannot say any of this, and a collection read without it is a collection read wrongly.

  • Local cults are thin: Wikidata records the Panhellenic gods far better than the deity of a single Arcadian valley.
  • Roman equivalence is recorded as identification, and the identification is usually Roman rather than Greek — asserted by the borrowing side.
  • Almost no narrative variant is attributed to a specific line of a specific work yet; the ones that are, are marked.

Counted across the collections

Festivals, practices and events follow how densely Wikidata records them, not how much a tradition keeps: 77% of the 845 held across the collections are Christian, and this collection holds 37.

What the counts mean

Statements
Relationships and facts recorded on these records.
With references
Statements that cite a source outside Wikimedia.
Undated
Records with no date on any of the three clocks.
Accounts
Named versions of a story, kept apart.
Reviewed here
Read by a person and signed with a date.

How it was assembled

Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here.

“Reviewed” means a person read it and signed it with a date — which is why it is zero. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Records here have an article in 16 languages between them. The interface is English only for now. Published 2026-09-25.

How 25 of these records were placed here through another record

Most records are in Greek and Roman by their own statements. These are here because of another record they are linked to — worked out when the data was built, not stated on the record itself. Each one’s own page says the same.

Cities and sites, through the places recorded in them · 2

  • Baalbek — 2 of the 3 places recorded in it here are in this collection
  • Paestum — 2 of the 2 places recorded in it here are in this collection

Places, through the god they are dedicated to · 11

and 5 more

Parts, through the whole they belong to · 3

Works, through their main subject · 3

Gods, through a parent or a consort · 2

Pantheons, through their own published gods · 4

dronepicr · CC BY 2.0

Keep going

Walk Greek and Roman another way.

A family tree as the accounts give it, every mapped place on the atlas, and the dates on the timeline — each on its own clock.

Zeus’s family tree On the atlas The timeline, from Aristotle