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 Romans invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought new influences, and their own gods were combined with native British gods to ...

Finally, gods were brought over through necessity ... Juno was the patron goddess of the Roman Empire yet she was not originally Roman. Many traditional Roman myths show the goddess as an ...

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 ...

[In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious options. It would be like going to a supermarket and being able to sort of shop for God. And you have them at various times in your life ...

Initially it was the religion of the urban areas: the civitas. The population at large, though, continued for some time their polytheistic worship based on Roman and Celtic beliefs.

Compelling and comprehensive, this book may nonetheless be an uphill climb for lay readers with little more than a basic ...