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

The citizens of the Roman empire and, within certain limits, even its rulers were extremely tolerant of foreign gods. The oldest and most accepted group of foreign deities were the gods of ancient ...

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 Romans invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought new influences, and their own gods were combined with native British gods to produce religious hybrids. It also paved the way for a new religion ...

As every year on the same date, February 14, will be an occasion to celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day. The origins of this ...

T he Romans believed there were a myriad of gods that maintained the functioning of the universe, and not all of them were known to them. In their conquests of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor ...

Many a devout Roman Catholic is a Rotarian ... “Rotary is not an open declaration of war on religion, it is one of neutrality. It adopts a policy of naturalism and knows nothing of faith ...

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