These are the cream of the crop when it comes to Roman gods and goddesses. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most enduring members of the Roman pantheon.

The ancient Romans were followers of paganism, a religion with a variety of different gods and goddesses. Each played an important role in different aspects of their everyday lives. The Roman ...

The Roman religion experience was, in a certain sense, very free because in a polytheistic religion where, you know, to start with, there are many gods, there is always space for more. It's very ...

In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions – many of whose soldiers had served in Persia – and shrines to him have been found in Britain, Syria, and across ...

For a start, Roman religion typically welcomed new gods. In all its different versions—and there was never a single orthodoxy across the Roman world—it was polytheist.

Ancient Greek and Roman mythologies honored Apollo and his son Asclepius as gods in charge of healing. But whereas Asclepius healed diseases of the body, Apollo was in charge of curing the world ...

The head of a Roman pipeclay figurine depicting the god Mercury found at Smallhythe Place in Kent, England. Fewer than 10 pipeclay Mercury figurines have been discovered so far from Roman Britain.