When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

Sondhelm also suggested that the trend of naming financial firms after Greek/Roman gods can be traced back to when a classical education marked the financial elite of the west. “Latin and Greek ...

Every city in Greece had a 'patron' god or goddess. People believed patron gods protected them from harm. A Greek coin showing Pegasus and the goddess, Athena. The Greeks thought the gods lived ...

Others were lifted from Greek stories — Gods like Apollo or Hercules. The Romans took these foreign deities and gave them new names and Roman qualities to suit their needs.

ANITA: What other Roman gods were there? MUM ... Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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 ...

Etruscan civilization predated the Roman Empire by hundreds of years, and as such, the Romans were influenced by many ...

Local deities specific to a town, modest shrines, colossal temples like the Pantheon, and the With gods imported from all over the Mediterranean, such was the diversity of Roman religion.

An ancient Greek snake altar made to appease the gods of the underworld was just unearthed in southern Turkey. Though the ancient city in which it was found is believed to be the birthplace of Santa ...

Bust of Queen Berenike II of Egypt, in the Musee Royal de Mariemont, Belgium. Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The ...

The Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcaster will write a retelling of the Odyssey and the Horrible Histories-esque The Little ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...