What was the religion of the Romans like before Christianity?

Answer 1

They were Pagans, and believed a variety of religions; the main one was based on classical Greek religion but they also worshipped their emperors and followed "foreign" religions such as Egyptian and Persian religions.

Answer 2

Rominity the worship of the great jupiter. In addition to Jupiter worship, the Romans worshiped many other gods and goddesses. In fact they even built a temple, the Pantheon, for all of them. Their religion is called pantheism, which is the worship of many deities.

Answer 3

Prior to Christianity the religion of the Roman was Roman religion, which, like all ancient religions apart from Judaism, was polytheistic. There were many deities that they built temples and shrines to, as well as worshiped, such as Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, and Mars. They were mainly Roman and Latin deities, but there were also some Sabine and Etruscan ones. The Romans adopted five Greek deities and Greek myths. Later they then also linked their deities to the Greek ones

Answer 4

Pre-Christian Rome's religious beliefs were based on gods with equivalents in the Greek pantheon, with some additional gods or religious beliefs based on Etruscan beliefs. Prior to the rise of Rome, the Etruscans were the dominant power in central Italy. However, Roman religion was also shamanistic, for example reading entrails to foresee the future. Unlike the Greeks, Romans had a different word for a god who had once been a man (divus) than for a true god (deus), but the emperors enthusiastically adopted the Greek concept of regarding dead emperors as gods, and eventually dropped the distinction, especially in the eastern empire.

Answer 5

Different civilizations worshipped their owns set of Gods. For example, Greece worshiped Zeus, Hephaetus, Apollo, Aphrotdite, etc. Egyptians worshipped Ra, Amun, Ptah, Anubis, Horus, etc.

Answer 6

Before Christianity, Rome, like all the other people, (Jews excepted) practiced pantheism. they had their state gods, personal gods, and cults.