Although they kept Latin names and images, the links between Roman and Greek gods gradually came ... across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions ...

One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they die?

Some of these Greek gods shared Roman names and acquired some Roman characteristics ... Augustus himself was celebrated by these same poets as the divinely designated agent of the prophecy's ...

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 ...

Based on its stylistic features, it dates back to the Roman Imperial Period (late 2nd to early 3rd century AD). During excavations, two marble heads, believed to belong to Aphrodite (goddess of ...