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The pre-Roman Empire tribes worshipped many mythical gods. After Julius Caesar set up the empire and designated himself as God the tribes worshipped caesar. But they called him by the varius names of their individual tribal god. This is common knowledge and is proven by searching google Roman denarius. These were the coins of ancient Rome. The one mentioned in the bible was the Augustus-Zeus coin.

2007-01-28 06:26:51 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Anthropology

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By definition, Romans are post-Romulus and Remus, the semi-mythical founders of that nation-state. and yes, they did worship many gods even in Caesar's day. While there clearly coins struck under his name (as with most Roman emperors after him), that was never taken as a sign of divinity- esp. as a single god.

2007-01-28 10:48:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Romulus and Remus are mythical, fictional characters. And there were hundreds of years between the supposed time of existence of Romulus and Remus and the historical existence of Julius Caesar. Hundreds of years during which multiple gods are mentioned in Roman literature and iconography. Go figure.

2007-01-28 19:45:31 · answer #2 · answered by somebody 4 · 0 0

they were clearly polytheistic, modeled after the greeks until the emperor constantine around 300 a.d. who unified rome under a new form of christianity which later becaem the roman catholic church. some argue that catholocism is a revamping of pagan rome by re naming roman deities with judeo christian names, but thats jsut some peoples theory on the matter.
there have been recent arhchaeological findings that suggest romulus and remus may not have been mythical, but were perhaps indeed feral twins raised by a wolf, which is a rare but very real phenomenon, but like all science, the deal withthe twins is based on evidence to support a theory as opposed to being absolute empirical fact

2007-01-30 03:25:49 · answer #3 · answered by elvis332 2 · 0 0

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