Publicly, the Roman state honored many gods, all of which were believed to have ... with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve greatest gods ...

They need all the luck they can get so they ... gods and goddesses are borrowed and adapted from the gods the ancient Greeks believed in. Rome succeeded the Greeks as the dominant empire and ...

Olympus should be the common dwelling place of all the gods. Assembled on ... most distinguished cults of the Roman imperial period had originated either in ancient Greece or in Rome itself ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty.

While excavating a historic hospital in France, a team of archaeologists uncovered dozens of Roman-era graves, some with ancient “curse tablets,” in what appears to be an all-male cemetery ...