Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and honored ...

When the Germanic-speaking peoples of western Europe adopted the seven-day week, which was probably in the early centuries of the Christian era, they named their days after those of their own gods who ...

An essay by Marianne Bonz describing the myriad of religious options available in the Roman Empire. Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard ...

Valerie Tarico interviews Dr. Tony Nugent, scholar of world religions. Dr. Nugent is a symbologist, an expert in ancient symbols. He taught at Seattle University for fifteen years in the Department of ...

If your emperor rules by the mandate of the gods, but then orders you to attack a god at home, does he still have the mandate ...

An artist’s depiction of the temple at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz as it would have looked in the first century AD. Marie Millet, INRAP In April, archaeologists excavating at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz, ...