In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and rebirth. She therefore combined the duties of several Roman goddesses, including Cybele, Aphrodite and ...

fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of AphroditeAphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon.

Worship of Epona, a Gallic goddess associated with fertility and horses, spread beyond Gaul to the edges of the Roman Empire. The Seine twists its way along a verdant landscape near Esclavolles ...

The discovery sheds light on the lives of Roman women and how becoming a ... was a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from which the word ...