The trade and travel that was integral to the Roman Empire made it easy for the worship of gods to spread abroad and Isis came to be worshipped across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god ...

Many of the Roman gods and goddesses are borrowed and adapted from the gods the ancient Greeks believed in. Rome succeeded the Greeks as the dominant empire and, after taking control of their ...

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 ...

Greek and Roman gods evoked fear, awe and envy. Their names now control trillions of dollars of your money. Janus, Apollo, Jupiter and Ares are some of the most famous names of Greek and Roman ...

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

Guest Commentary by Gordon Stewart How do the 21st century disciples of a first century Galilean Jewish carpenter crucified by the Roman Empire follow their Lord? More specifically, faced with the ...

After 260 A.D. and the planned withdrawal of the Roman Empire from southwest Germany ... the manor house — and it was a ...