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Isis arrived in Rome over official objections. The Roman Senate banned her worship multiple times in the first century BC — in 58, 53, 50, and 48 BC, with varying degrees of enforcement — ordering her altars demolished and her images removed from the city. The bans failed because …
Rome was not original in its theology, and it did not pretend to be. The Romans were systematic borrowers of divine power, operating on the practical …
The Pantheon is the best-preserved ancient building in the world, and it is better preserved than most medieval buildings, because it has been in …
The Saturnalia began on December 17 and lasted, in its imperial development, for seven days. It was the most popular festival in the Roman calendar, …
The Vestal Virgins were the most socially privileged women in Rome and, simultaneously, subject to a punishment for a specific transgression — …