While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...

Roman religion was divided into ... and the paterfamilias was in charge of the household worship that honored them. Romans also had a set of public gods, such as Jupiter and Mars.

Roman worship was divided into the public ... head of the family – performed religious rituals for the household. Beyond the home, gods were worshipped by the state, which employed colleges ...