LINK BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC LIFE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Religion in the Roman empire or what we tend to call paganism was really very much a public affair. It was a blend of belief in the old ...

The religions of the ancient Greeks and the ancient Romans, often simply called “classical religion,” are often viewed as ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

The Cult of Mithras was a thriving religion in the Roman Empire. But by the 5th century....it was gone. What do we know about the Cult of Mithras? And what was its relationship with Christianity?

A statue of a young woman depicted as the goddess Juno The Roman Empire was polytheistic - this means that people worshipped more than one god. Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion ...

A bioarchaeological investigation has revealed that the quality of life in the countryside was better than city life in the ...

If you wish to devote substantial time to art and archaeology as sources for myth and religion, you may discuss modifications with the Chair of your Examination Committee.

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death.

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...

What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?