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

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 ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

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 ...

A marble statue of Hermes from the Roman Imperial Period was found during ... The marble statue depicts Hermes, known in ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

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 ...

UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to immerse themselves in the cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome and trace their influence through history to the present day. Students ...