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

Who Was the Roman Emperor Elagabalus ... He was described as exceptionally handsome and worshipped the local sun god Elagabal in his youth. Rumors circulated about him considering a sex-change ...

the beautiful and seductive goddess who was the mother of Aeneas, the founding hero of Rome according to legend. But since Julius Caesar, his nephew the emperor Augustus, and all of the Roman ...

In addition to the structures and the lead water pipe, archaeologists unearthed slabs of Roman-era pottery and terracotta ... possibly reinforcing the emperor’s self-image of a god-like figure. How ...

The first Roman emperor to wear a full beard ... busts, and sculptures of gods and heroes modeled on the best examples of Greek statuary. The entry on Hadrian in the Augustan History, a fourth ...

over time more were added to serve emperors who had been deified. The vestal virgins Finally, the vestal virgins lived at the Temple of Vesta in Rome. Vesta was the native Roman goddess of the ...

Image caption, A statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. They also borrowed new gods from the people they conquered, like the goddess Isis from Egypt and Mithras from Iran. Some emperors ...

Image caption, A statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. They also borrowed new gods from the people they conquered, like the goddess Isis from Egypt and Mithras from Iran. Some emperors ...