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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greek goddess Aphrodite is the first mother to spank her child, Eros, with a sandal, started a tradition that's still ...

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

These gods had made their home in the Roman world at an early time, along with Greek art and literature. Some of these Greek gods shared Roman names and acquired some Roman characteristics.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

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