Some of these Greek gods shared Roman names and acquired some Roman ... Apollonius possessed extraordinary gifts, including innate knowledge of all languages, the ability to foretell the future ...

Some kind of ancestor worship, or perhaps if you were an aristocratic Roman, Venus or one of the other gods might be ... could be introduced into a special knowledge and a special way of viewing ...

One such example is Jupiter—one of the most celebrated and iconic Gods from the Roman era. Jupiter is known as the king of ...

Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painting shows a gathering of Roman gods and goddesses, tended upon by satyrs and nymphs in a ...

There are several examples of altars to Roman gods and goddesses which have been recovered along the length of the Antonine Wall. Many have been dedicated to Victory, the Roman goddess of victory ...