Exactly!
They were actually FAR very FAR from being Monotheistic, even by polytheist standards!
And since Romans were a Religiously Open people, there were actually temples to Isis and Ra, Anubis etc.. and other Egyptian Gods in Rome! But not limited to Egypt, Romans worshiped Gods from all over the known world.
Besides, Jupiter is the Latin for the Greek God Zeus, you can't have Jupiter without the other Gods of the Greek Pantheon!
Many of the Latin versions of the Greek Gods came to the Romans throught the Etruscans who themselves got them from the Greeks and later once in Greece from the Greeks themselves.
Zeus = Jupiter
Poseidon = Neptune
Artemis = Diana
Aphrodite = Venus
Hera = Juno
Athena = Minerva
Demeter = Ceres
Hades = Pluto
Apollon = Apollo
Ares = Mars
Eros = Cupid
Hermes = Mercury
Hephaestus = Vulcan
Dionysos = Bachus
Cronos = Saturn
Hestia = Vesta
Ouranos = Uranus
And then some!
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