Who was the Roman god of the sea?
Neptune, although I’d say “is” rather than “was”. He still has followers. Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of the sea in Roman mythology. He was a relative of Ceres. He is analogous but not identical to the god Poseidon of Greek mythology. The Roman conception of Neptune owed a great deal to the Etruscan god Nethuns. Originally he was an Italic god paired with Salacia, possibly the goddess of the salt water. At an early date (399 BC) he was identified with the Greek Poseidon, when the Sibylline books ordered a lectisternium in his honour (Livy v. 13). In earlier times it was the god Fortunus who was thanked for naval victories, but Neptune supplanted him in this role by at least the 1st century BC, when Sextus Pompeius called himself “son of Neptune”. Neptune statue, Gdańsk.His festival, Neptunalia, at which tents were made from the branches of trees, July 23. He had two temples in Rome. The first, built in 25 BC, stood near the Circus Flaminius, the Roman racetrack, and contained
