The citizens of the Roman empire and, within certain limits ... (Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11.5) Religion and the Roman Emperors In the last century before the common era, the Greek cities had ...

Roman religion was divided into two. Spirits watched over people, families and households, and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of ...

Christianity was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD. Before then, Christians got into trouble because they refused to worship the ...

Who is responsible for the birth of Christianity? As with any major phenomenon, the answer is complex. Christianity developed ...

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Because Roman religion inherited many of its deities from ... the monarchy (until 509 BCE), the Republic (509-27 BCE), and the empire (27 BCE-476 CE), the Romans blessed the Mars cult with more ...

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A statue of a young woman depicted as the goddess Juno The Roman Empire was polytheistic - this means that people worshipped more than one god. Wealthy and poor Romans shared the same religion ...

More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...