Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and honored ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

It's not every day that I'm faced with the chance to step back in time. I've long been fascinated with ancient Rome. A child of the ’80s, I was the little girl glued to the television every Saturday ...

Legends from another ancient culture fill A Pocket Dictionary of Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses by Richard Wolff. More than 40 deities are grouped into categories such as ""The Twelve Olympians,"" ...

You might not be making sacrifices at a Roman temple or calling on Jupiter to fix your flat tyre, but the gods and goddesses of ancient Rome haven’t exactly vanished. They’re still hanging around, ...

We know that the ancient Greeks had a massively entertaining sets of gods and goddesses. So it’s no wonder that when Rome conquered Greece, they replaced their own dull pantheon with renamed versions ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...