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 ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in ...

colleges of priests paid tribute to these gods on behalf of Rome itself. The objective of Roman worship was to gain the blessing of the gods and thereby gain prosperity for themselves, their ...

The art of surprise." In 1958 ... In 1985, Fendi chose Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and ends, as its symbol: His two faces, one looking toward the past and the other toward the future ...