For example, Mars was seen as the god of war and Fortuna was the goddess of luck and fortune. Many of the Roman gods and goddesses are borrowed and adapted from the gods the ancient Greeks ...

Bull heads like these were used throughout ancient Greece and Rome to both ward off evil spirits and symbolize strength and power.

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks ... Other major gods included Mars (god of war), Mercury (god of trade ...

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 ...

While excavating a historic hospital in France, a team of archaeologists uncovered dozens of Roman-era graves, some with ancient ... calling on the Roman god of war, Mars, to invoke a curse ...