the gods balanced out life and death for the Romans
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The Greeks and the Romans. However, the Romans gave the gods new, Roman names. Zeus's Roman name was Jupiter.
Mercury was the Roman god of Messengers and Travelers. so he probably was the gods messenger.
They were not; they came from two different peoples, and when Romans took over Greece their gods and goddesses were adopted and adapted to the Roman people.
Greek mythology came first. Then the Romans came. They admired the gods and goddesses of the Greeks and copied. The Roman gods and goddesses and more disciplined and war-like. Because Greek and Roman mythology things can't have the same name, Romans changed the names.
A lot of the Roman ideals and beliefs were taken from the Ancient Greeks. For example, the Roman gods are the same as the Greek gods, just with different names.