Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

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 ...

Roman worship was divided into the public and the private. Families would honor their household spirits while Rome had colleges of official priests to ensure that its actions met with divine approval.

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

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

Did the Romans believe in a god? What gods did Romans have? What did Roman soldiers believe in? Why did soldiers worship Mithras? Key words ANITA: The Romans in Scotland; gods and beliefs.

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 ...

Because Roman religion inherited many of its deities from the Greeks, it too had those same Near Eastern influences, but were also influenced by the Etruscans.Uniquely in the Greco-Roman world ...

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 ...