With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

Heracles or Hercules according to Roman mythology is a prominent figure in Classical mythology and is considered among the most famous of all the Greek heroes. Heracles was born ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

The Roman Empire was primarily a polytheistic civilization, which meant that people recognized and worshiped multiple deities. The Romans adopted a lot of the Greek gods into their own religion ...

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...

Archaeologists in the Neckargartach district of Heilbronn, Germany, have uncovered a 500-meter stretch of an ancient Roman road, along with an ancient temple and statue of Mercury. Artifacts suggest ...

Others were lifted from Greek stories — Gods like Apollo or Hercules. The Romans took these foreign deities and gave them new ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

The exhibition, with the theme of "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts, will continue its tour in ...

A wildfire in southern California reached the grounds of the Getty Villa Museum which houses exquisite exhibits from ancient ...