In their conquests of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, they encountered many cultures that worshipped foreign deities. While some might assume that they would outlaw them, after all a Roman ...

Roman worship was divided into the ... The flamines were minor priests and had responsibility to a particular god. Although there were originally just 15 flamines, over time more were added ...

Roman religion had many gods and spirits and Augustus was keen to join their number as a god himself. This was not unusual: turning political leaders into gods was an old tradition around the ...