Romans also had a set of public gods, such as Jupiter and Mars. State worship was much more formal: colleges of priests paid tribute to these gods on behalf of Rome itself. The objective of Roman ...

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 ...

The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome announced its recent farewell to a "beautiful" stone head dating back to antiquity. It ...