I blame the young adult genre for making me so obsessed with Greek and Roman mythology as a teenager that I sometimes still ...

Archaeologists excavating at Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome have unearthed a marble slab dedicated to Summanus, the god of ...

A major work that reinterprets ancient Roman religion not as an institutional history of gods, priests, and state rituals, ...

When looking at ancient Roman sculptures, one sometimes encounters gods with somewhat unusual appearances.A man with a rich beard is reclining comfortably, leaning on his elbow. Beside him is a water ...

Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and honored ...

A marble inscription discovered at Hadrian’s Villa has preserved the rare physical reminders of the Roman rite of lightning which was performed at the place the lightning was thought to have struck.

A rare bronze figurine of the Greek god Priapus has been discovered at a massive Roman residence in Novae, Bulgaria.