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They aren't EXACTLY identical but there are similarities. This is to be expected when the cultures grew up within such close proximity, where the experience of day to day life was virtually identical. Long before Greek civilization really came to prominence, the Mediterranean region was an amalgamation of tribal states with more-or-less free exchange of ideas, goods and services, along with the occasional war, looting and pillaging.

What we now know as the Greek Gods were themselves the result of incorporation of various tribal deities over centuries, including those of the tribal states that would later form Rome.

The Greeks really didn't have them first, they were just more important culturally before the Romans. Then when the Roman Empire began, they simply continued to worship the same Gods they had before, re-incorporating the occasional Greek myth, and re-establishing their own tribal names for the deities they already knew.

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