Cupid, the ancient Roman god of love, is a universal symbol of Valentine’s Day who has inspired artists for centuries. Often appearing as a winged infant in artists’ depictions, carrying a bow and a ...

Margaret Clunies Ross receives funding from The Australian Research Council. When the Germanic-speaking peoples of western Europe adopted the seven-day week, which was probably in the early centuries ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have identified the Bahçeli Roman Pool in Niğde as an ancient 2nd-century healing sanctuary ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A mysterious relief of a completely unknown Roman god was recently unearthed in Gaziantep, Turkey ...

One Pennsylvania school's Latin students have re-imagined the Roman pantheon by finding modern-day celebrities that correspond to the gods of antiquity. Tom Thorne and Gregory Lynch are Latin teachers ...