Here is the temple of Roma and Augustus, which also figures heavily in Roman religion for the subjects of empire. Local deities specific to a town, modest shrines, colossal temples like the ...

This duality is reflected in the nature of Roman prayer structures even in the centuries after conscious knowledge of Janus’s role slipped away into a hellenized interpretation of the gods.

The dinosaur’s genus name — Iani — is a nod to its changing world. It references the two-faced Janus, the Roman god of transitions, the study authors reported. Paleontologists excavated the ...

Mercury is the Roman god of finance, travel ... boundary features and pits—which provide tantalizing clues to the nature of this riverside community.” From this trove of artifacts, the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists say that the people of the Heraclea Sintica likely attempted to preserve the statue, even after Christianity was adopted as the official religion in the Roman Empire. "Everything ...