By DasonIn the beginning the ancient Romans had a polytheistic religion (meaning that they worshipped more than one god/goddess) this religion of theirs was adapted from the ancient Greek's Polytheistic religion and its gods/goddesses and it was also adapted from various cults from surrounding areas but just like the Greek's they had several gods/goddesses for just about everything, For instance, Much like the Greek god Zeus who was king of the gods for Greece the Romans had their own version of him known as Jupiter who ruled over the other gods along with his wife goddess of the sky Juno. Another similar god between the ancient Greeks and Romans was their sea god to the Greeks he was known as Poseidon but to the Romans he is known as Neptune.
Now if you have read the rest of our site I'm sure you know of Ancient Rome's vast empire of conquered land well the Romans were kind and as their vast empire expanded they didn't impose their Polytheistic religion upon the lands they conquered they kind of just let them keep their religion if they wanted to which i thought was rather nice of the Romans to do. Here's where things start to get mean Judaism and Christianity two very well known religions today, posed threat to the Roman's polytheistic religion and one emperor by the name Nero absolutely hated the jews and he expelled them and christians from Rome and eventually Nero's son Titus would go on to continue his fathers hatred and their War against the Jews Titus eventually would destroy the city of jerusalem and kill thousands of jews. Nero would later be know to them as the Anti-Christ (harsh right?) but all of this hatred would continue into the rule of Diocletian and then under Diocletian's Successor Constantine this all would end. Constantine issued the Edict of Milan which finally gave Christianity and judaism religous freedom and later on Constantine would eventually convert to christianity leaving few remains of the polytheistic religion |