A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to ... believe she was a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and ...

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 worship was to gain the blessing of ...

Jupiter, for example, was very similar to the Greek god Zeus. Statue of the Roman god, Mars, at the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Romans took their beliefs very seriously and so most Roman forts would ...