Roman Pagan Life and Worship

Best video on Roman religion that I've seen, and I've seen a lot.

Everything I've ever found about Greek and Roman religion always goes straight to Zeus and Apollo and the myths without an explanation of how and why they worshiped and what they got for it. Thanks for explaining.

These lectures are excellent and very well done.  I would, however, challenge the notion that the Romans did not embrace "faith" as part of pagan religion.  True, "faith played a different role in paganism as compared with Christianity.  For example, pagans did not believe that they are ultimately judged on the basis of their faith.  But why were rituals so important to pagan worship?  Because they believed participating in such rituals won favor with the gods.  Faith in the gods is implicit in that. I think we make a mistake if we imagine that Romans were devoted to experience, conformity and ritual but didn't really believe in their gods.  Sure, it's easy for US to imagine that because most of us treat these beliefs as mythology.  But this was not mythology to the Romans.  Faith in their gods was essential to their view of reality.

So, no one thinks any of those rituals/practices sound a lot like Catholicism?

Ryan I'm so thankful to have found your channel. Informative and easy to understand for the layman. Keep up the awesome work and TY for the energy you put into each lecture. The best history class is found right HERE! God bless

Love your stuff. I am really learning a lot. Great for my kids Home Schooling. Thank you

I really enjoy your videos, they are well produced, and very informative.

Thank you very much for posting these. Very happy I found these. Love history and have always been interested in Theology. Well done, indeed.

Absolutely Amazing. I appreciate the rebirth of the hunger for the history.

Paganism is awesome. No wishy washy bs. Just duty and sacrifice.

subscribed - excellent audio and fantastic english accent and speech for a foreign language to understand - fantastic speed too -GOD BLESS YOUR LIFE.

Great video, actually the only one that i ve seen that goes deeper into covering this subject. I wanted to ask, since there was no dogma, do we know how the romans knew what they were supposed to do? Second, since there was no dogma or a certain myth in the foundation of the religion as it is in christianity, how come greeks and romans, who did huge steps in philosophy, didnt question their faith?

These are great man! Thanks for putting all the work into them.

This sheds a lot of light on the emerging church in Roman society. We see a very Jewish body of believers that was still going to the synagogues, still keeping the Sabbaths and the feasts, morph into a group that repeated prayers (soon with rosaries and statues), develop creeds and "statements of faith", worshipped now on Sun-day, and also adopted a form of henotheism in changing Yahshua's name to "Jesus" and for the most part banishing YHVH's name from His own book.

This was very informative. As a Roman Pagan myself, it depicts how both the ancient Roman Paganism and modern Roman Paganism (Religio Romana) works. Indeed, I think that dying for a religious cause is crazy and nonsense, and that over-doing the worship of the gods is unnecessary.

Wow! Awesome, very informative! OM Tat Sat, AUM... May God help us, ALL...

Great work!

I have always had trouble understanding the difference between venerate and worship. Catholics say they venerate the Saints and this lecture states that Romans venerated the emperor. How is that different from worship?

God bless you brother Ryan Reeves. Thank you.

Is there any connection between the role of patron saints in Christianity and Greco-Roman pagan gods?