Most scientists claim that Romans adopted their gods directly from the Greeks. The reality, however, is more complicated.

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

By the first century before the common era, however, his identity had merged with the more serious Roman god Jupiter. And this new Zeus/Jupiter was to become the supremely just, powerful ...

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

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...

[In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous ... Asclepius is often portrayed in some ways similar to Zeus as this great, old bearded god and he also has his wife or consort. Her name is Hygeia.

The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced on Monday the discovery of a marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus—the pantheon's chief deity or a sky and weather god in Greek mythology ...