The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire is often imagined as constant and widespread, but historical evidence suggests a more complex reality. In many cases, punishments were local and ...

Religion and the Roman Emperors In the last century before the common era, the Greek cities had fallen prey to corrupt Roman administrators and sporadic local insurrections, as the power struggles ...

Site has been sacred ground for nearly 3,000 years, and counting According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 B.C., when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and ...

Christianity is just one chapter in the Eternal City’s rich spiritual history. Judaism, Islam and ancient Roman religions are also a big part of the picture. The Temple of Hercules Victor, above, is ...

Scholars studying ancient languages have identified striking similarities between the names of major sky gods across Indo-European cultures. Deities such as Zeus in Greece, Jupiter in Rome, and ...

From far-reaching empires to seminal religious texts and the growth of expansive trade routes, the fifth century ushered in many important events outside of Europe. The fall of Rome may have rocked ...

The citizens of the Roman empire and, within certain limits, even its rulers were extremely tolerant of foreign gods. The oldest and most accepted group of foreign deities were the gods of ancient ...

David Laskin Martin Pauer May 7, 2023 May 7, 2023 0 According to legend, Rome was born April 21, 753 B.C., when Romulus, the survivor of its feuding twin founders, hitched his plow and furrowed a ...