Product Description: Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could have a deep personal and spiritual meaning...read more

Product Description: Introduces the major and lesser figures of Roman mythology and discusses the Romans' religious beliefs, practices, and institutions.

Product Description: L'Antiquité est un véritable bouillon cultuel: d'Homère à Augustin, Grecs et Romains ont interrogé de manière continue le lien inextricable entre l'univers des dieux et celui des hommes. Avec déférence ou impertinence, ils nous ont laissé les portraits colorés d'une multitude de divinités, tantôt terrifiantes, tantôt risibles, le plus souvent partenaires de la vie quotidienne, dont l'histoire permet de penser la place de l'individu, avec ses espoirs et ses angoisses, dans la cité et dans le monde...read more

Product Description: The book is concerned with the question of how the concept of 'god' in urban Rome can be analyzed along the lines of six constituent concepts, i.e. space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual. While older publications tended to focus on the conceptual nature of Roman gods only in those (comparatively rare) instances in which different concepts patently overlapped (as in the case of the deified emperor or hero-worship), this book develops general criteria for an analysis of pagan, Jewish and Christian concepts of gods in ancient Rome (and by extension elsewhere)...read more

Product Description: An examination of the religious beliefs of the people of the Roman province of Britain, from the Celtic background to the composite religion which eventually emerged.

Discusses the development of Roman mythology, and shows how various heroes and gods were depicted in statues and artifacts

A retelling of the great tales of heroes and gods from Roman mythology and history provides an introduction to ancient Roman history, culture, and beliefs.

Shows temples, tombs, frescoes and statues, recounts Roman religious practices, and briefly traces the history of Rome

Identifies the heroes, supernatural beings, gods, and goddesses of classical mythology, and discusses the characteristics, attributes, legends, and festivals associated with each figure