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 ...

The oldest and most accepted group of foreign deities were the gods of ancient Greece ... (Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.5) Religion and the Roman Emperors In the last century before the common ...

The God and his Mysteries by Manfred Clauss, translated by Richard Gordon (Edinburgh, 2000) English Heritage Book of Roman Britain by Martin Millett (Batsford, 1995) - the chapter on religion ...

The Roman attitude to religion appears to have been pragmatic ... Folk memories of these ancient British gods persist to the present day in the form of myths and legends, with the finest example ...

When Julius Caesar wrote a series of histories about the Gallic Wars around 53 B.C.E., he mentioned a fascinating group of ...

Some emperors were declared gods too, usually after they died. They hoped this would make emperors even more powerful and respected. Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire ...

The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...

Ancient Roman religion had its own nuances ... from personal matters to important battles. The will of the gods could also be ...

Jewish writer thinks Messianic Jewish pastor Jonathan Cahn is right about decline of Abrahamic religion ... The Return Of The Gods. In it, Cahn puts forward the thesis that ancient Near Eastern ...