Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

By the first century before the common era, however, his identity had merged with the more serious Roman god Jupiter. And this new Zeus/Jupiter was to become the supremely just, powerful ...

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...

While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Jupiter is known as the king of gods in Roman mythology and ... back to the Proto-Indo-European sky god Dyeus, who was ...

The trade and travel that was integral to the Roman Empire made it easy for the worship of gods to spread abroad and Isis came to be worshipped across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god ...